Documents of Culture, Documents of Barbarism: Gothic Literature, Empiricism, and the Rise of Professional Science

The trope of the discovered manuscript, in which a narrator or character finds a document and presents it to the readers or other characters, has been a part of the Gothic genre since its inception. The discovered manuscript trope persists, despite criticism and satire, in part because it enables Go...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Grace, Andrew
Other Authors: Spillman, Deborah
Language:en_US
Published: University of Oregon 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1794/13010