@article{745647,
      note = {Originally published in 1995.},
      author = {Clery, E. J.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/745647},
      title = {The rise of supernatural fiction, 1762-1800 /},
      publisher = {Cambridge University Press,},
      abstract = {"A genre of supernatural fiction was among the more  improbable products of the Age of Enlightenment, but  produced a string of bestsellers. E.J. Clery's original and  historically sensitive account charts the troubled entry of  the supernatural into fiction, and examines the reasons for  its growing popularity in the late eighteenth century.  Beginning with the notorious case of the Cock Lane ghost, a  performing poltergeist who became a major attraction in the  London of 1762, and with Garrick's spell-binding  performance as the ghost-seeing Hamlet, it moves on to look  at the Gothic novels of Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe, M.G.  Lewis and others, in unexpected new lights. The central  insight emerging from the rich resources of Clery's  research concerns the connection between fictions of the  supernatural and the growth of consumerism. Not only are  ghost stories successful commodities in the rapidly  commercialising book market, they are also considered here  as reflections on the disruptive effects of this  socio-economic transformation. In providing a newly  detailed context for the rise of supernatural fiction,  Clery's work will change our view of its dramatic role - as  much commercial as creative - in the movement from  Enlightenment to Romanticism."--Jacket.},
      recid = {745647},
      pages = {xii, 222 pages :},
      address = {Cambridge ;},
      year = {1999},
}