Angelina


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Angelina; Or, the Mystery of St. Mark's Abbey. a Tale of Other Days


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1841 edition. Excerpt: ...a tear tumhled in, hw ye, she saw a sympathising ons sparkling in that nf the artless, hit eicellent-hearted girl, and throwing herself on her neck, she gate free indulgence to her long-confined reelings. Great was this relief to oar heroine's hofom; it #ae whit Ae' had long anted, a sympathizing heart, in which she could repose those thutights, those wi-Jiea, which she had scarcity yet dared to acknowledge herself, and sinMi st that moment happier than ehe had heen Tor mnny months. I.nurn, although a giddy, waa a sensihle girl, and very fond of her cousin, arid ehe, therefore, eipressed the warmest Interest id her situation, nm'nffercd her all the advice that her knowledge, and mature deliheration oti the circnmstancc-f suggested. "But alas!" ohserved Angelina, after they had heen conversing for some time, "whit is the use of my encouraging a passion, which ran never he gratified? It le only patting the canker worm of cmv and misery to hoth our hearts." "And why so, my melancholy coz.?" asked Laura, " what are the wonderful, the Insurmountahle ohstacles which prescrit themselves to your imagination?' "Is he not a smuggler?' returned Angelina, " hesides he U unknown to us, and he maintains a secrecy over his real name, that-- " "Nonsense," interrupted Laura, " if lie really loves' you, he wll! eoort remuve the latter dillicnlty, anil satisfy yourself and my father that his Intentions are honourahle; aS for his heing a smuggler, I confess I do not see any thing very ohjectionahle, for he only retaliates upon the revenue which nluntiers us of millions. However, may he not ahandon that course of Ufe I" Angelina Sigtled and shook her...




The Gothic Ideology


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The Gothic Ideology argues that in order to modernize and secularize, the British Protestant imaginary needed an 'other' against which it could define itself as a culture and a nation with distinct boundaries. The 'Gothic ideology' is identified as an intense religious anxiety, produced by the aftershocks of the Protestant reformation, the Catholic Counter-Reformation, and the dynastic upheavals produced by both events in England, Germany, and France, and was played out in hundreds of Gothic texts published throughout Europe between the mid-eighteenth century and 1880. This book is the first to read the Gothic ideology through the historical context of both King Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries and the extensive French anti-clerical and pornographic works that were well-known to Horace Walpole and Matthew Lewis. The book argues that Gothic was thoroughly invested in a crude form of anti-Catholicism that fed lower class prejudices against the passage of a variety of Catholic Relief Acts that had been pending in Parliament since 1788 and finally passed in 1829.




Fairground Attractions


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This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. The study investigates the cultural production of the visual iconography of popular pleasure grounds from the eighteenth century pleasure garden to the contemporary theme park. Deborah Philips identifies the literary genres, including fairy tale, gothic horror, Egyptiana and the Western which are common to carnival sites, tracing their historical transition across a range of media to become familiar icons of popular culture.Though the bricolage of narratives and imagery found in the contemporary leisure zone has been read by many as emblematic of postmodern culture, the author argues that the clash of genres and stories is less a consequence of postmodern pastiche than it is the result of a history and popular tradition of conventionalised iconography.







A Gothic Bibliography


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Modern English Biography


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