Letellier, Robert I.

Bibliography of the English Novel From the Restoration to the French Revolution. A Checklist of Sources and Critical Materials, with Particular Reference to the Period 1660 to 1740

1995 0-7734-1280-8
Source information includes: English fiction -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Bibliography. English fiction -- 18th century -- Bibliography. English fiction -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism -- Bibliography. English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism -- Bibliography

Sir Walter Scott and the Gothic Novel

1995 0-7734-1276-X
This monograph considers the relationship of Scott to that series of dark and powerful works that had begun in 1764 with Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto and, passing through the works of William Beckford, Ann Radcliffe and Matthew Lewis, were to find their gloomy fulfilment in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer. This study includes a survey of the critical appraisal of Sir Walter Scott in the twentieth century, the influence of the Gothic novel in the nineteenth century, Scott's relations with the Gothic novelists Horace Walpole and Ann Radcliffe, the origins of Scott's interest in the marvelous, Gothic influences upon his poetry and novels, and an assessment of Scott's significance.