Haunted by the Uncanny - Development of a Genre from the Late Eighteenth to the Late Nineteenth Century
This dissertation traces the development of the supernatural from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth-century. Since supernatural elements are unknown and unfamiliar, they easily arouse anxiety, fear, and even result in terror. As such they produce the effect of the uncanny and introduce the...
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LSU
2004
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| Online Access: | http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-06242004-144906/ |