Catholicism in Gothic Fiction: A Study of the Nature and Function of Catholic Materials in Gothic Fiction in England (1762-1820) |
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... interesting , were well calculated to persuade where to enforce obedience was impossible.103 " 104 The external appearance of the good abbess , also , is taken to be the index to the state of her soul . Correlia trusts her superior ...
... interesting , were well calculated to persuade where to enforce obedience was impossible.103 " 104 The external appearance of the good abbess , also , is taken to be the index to the state of her soul . Correlia trusts her superior ...
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... interesting to note that “ Julie . . . arose early to matins , and as regularly attended at vespers , whilst the intermediate hours were chiefly engaged . . . in embroidery or other elegant employments " ( Mrs. Sleath , The Orphan of ...
... interesting to note that “ Julie . . . arose early to matins , and as regularly attended at vespers , whilst the intermediate hours were chiefly engaged . . . in embroidery or other elegant employments " ( Mrs. Sleath , The Orphan of ...
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... interesting because it shows an almost complete develop- ment of Gothic devices into the devices of the modern detective story . 50 Mrs. M. Harley , Priory of St. Bernard ; Mrs. Eliza Parsons , The Mysterious Warning ; Castle of ...
... interesting because it shows an almost complete develop- ment of Gothic devices into the devices of the modern detective story . 50 Mrs. M. Harley , Priory of St. Bernard ; Mrs. Eliza Parsons , The Mysterious Warning ; Castle of ...
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A. M. MacKenzie Abbess Adeline St Agnes aisles altar Ann Radcliffe Anne Ker Anon Bungay Castle Burke Castle of Otranto Catholic materials Catholicism ceremony chapel characters in Gothic Charles Maturin church Clara Reeve cloisters convent Correlia crucifix devotion eighteenth-century Eliza Parsons Elizabeth Bonhote emotional Francis Lathom friars George Walker ghost gloom Gothic fiction Gothic novel Haunted Castle Horace Walpole horror Ibid Isabella Kelly Italian James White Libertines light Longsword Lusignan M. G. Lewis Mary Hopkins Mary Hopkins Pilkington Mass medieval melancholy melodramatic sentimentality Midnight Bell mind Missal monastery monastic Monk monkish Mysteries of Udolpho nature Netley Abbey Novel London novice nuns Orphan picturesque prayer priest Regina Maria Roche Reginald religion Requiem Rhine Rimauldo Romance London Sacrament Saint scene seal of confession Sicilian Romance sister Sleath solemn Sophia Frances Sophia Lee soul Stephen Cullen story sublime superstition T. J. Horsley Curties Tale London tapers terror tion vows W. H. Ireland