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The collection features three novels from the late eighteenth century, showcasing a transition from Augustanism to Romanticism. In Rasselas, Samuel Johnson grapples with the world's miseries, embodying stoic endurance. Horace Walpole's Castle of Otranto immerses readers in a fantastical escape from reality, while William Beckford's Vathek takes them on a magical journey to a lavish court and a haunting realm of perdition. Together, these works illustrate a shift from rationality to the imaginative excess that defines the Romantic Revival.
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Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century, Richard Chizmar
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2023
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- Titel
- Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Richard Chizmar
- Verlag
- Blurb
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2023
- Seitenzahl
- 380
- ISBN13
- 9798211258334
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik
- Beschreibung
- The collection features three novels from the late eighteenth century, showcasing a transition from Augustanism to Romanticism. In Rasselas, Samuel Johnson grapples with the world's miseries, embodying stoic endurance. Horace Walpole's Castle of Otranto immerses readers in a fantastical escape from reality, while William Beckford's Vathek takes them on a magical journey to a lavish court and a haunting realm of perdition. Together, these works illustrate a shift from rationality to the imaginative excess that defines the Romantic Revival.