The Gothic Quest
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| - | "In a second volume, then, I propose to treat in detail the work of Mrs. [[Radcliffe]], Mrs. [[Charlotte Smith]], Mrs. [[Parsons]], Mrs. [[Roche]], Mrs. [[Mccke]], Mrs. [[Holme]], Mrs. [[Bennett]], [[Ciodwin]], [[Charlotte Dacre]], [[Jane and Anne Maria Porter]], Mrs. [[Shelley]], [[Maturin]], [[Robert Huish]], [[Charles Lucas]], Mrs. [[Yorke]], [[Catherine Ward]], and very many more, the central place being, of course, held by “the mighty magician of The Mysteries of Udolpho ”."--''[[The Gothic Quest]]'' (1938) by Montague Summers | + | "In a second volume, then, I propose to treat in detail the work of Mrs. [[Radcliffe]], Mrs. [[Charlotte Smith]], Mrs. [[Parsons]], Mrs. [[Roche]], Mrs. [[Meeke]], Mrs. [[Helme]], Mrs. [[Bennett]], [[Godwin]], [[Charlotte Dacre]], [[Jane and Anne Maria Porter]], Mrs. [[Shelley]], [[Maturin]], [[Robert Huish]], [[Charles Lucas]], Mrs. [[Yorke]], [[Catherine Ward]], and very many more, the central place being, of course, held by “the mighty magician of The Mysteries of Udolpho ”."--''[[The Gothic Quest]]'' (1938) by Montague Summers |
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"In a second volume, then, I propose to treat in detail the work of Mrs. Radcliffe, Mrs. Charlotte Smith, Mrs. Parsons, Mrs. Roche, Mrs. Meeke, Mrs. Helme, Mrs. Bennett, Godwin, Charlotte Dacre, Jane and Anne Maria Porter, Mrs. Shelley, Maturin, Robert Huish, Charles Lucas, Mrs. Yorke, Catherine Ward, and very many more, the central place being, of course, held by “the mighty magician of The Mysteries of Udolpho ”."--The Gothic Quest (1938) by Montague Summers |
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The Gothic Quest: a History of the Gothic Novel (1938) is a book by Montague Summers.
Background
Montague Summers also produced important studies of the Gothic fiction genre. He edited three collections of Gothic horror short stories, as well as an incomplete edition of two of the seven obscure Gothic novels, known as the Northanger Horrid Novels, that Jane Austen mentioned in her Gothic parody novel Northanger Abbey. He was instrumental in rediscovering those lost works, which some had supposed were inventions of Jane Austen herself. He also published biographies of writers Jane Austen and Ann Radcliffe.
Summers compiled three anthologies of supernatural stories, The Supernatural Omnibus, The Grimoire and other Supernatural Stories, and Victorian Ghost Stories. Summers has been described as "the major anthologist of supernatural and Gothic fiction" in the 1930s.
Comments on The Romantic Agony
Montague Summers in his Gothic Quest dismissed The Romantic Agony by Mario Praz as "disjointed gimcrack."
He also mentions D. B. Wyndham-Lewis who in Men without Art calls the book "gigantic pile of satanic bric-a-brac, so industriously assembled, under my direction".
Summers also mentions in this respect in The Destructive Element by Stephen Spender.
Contents
- romantic feeling --
- The publishers and the circulating libraries --
- Influence from abroad --
- Historical Gothic --
- Matthew Gregory Lewis --
- Francis Lathom; T.J. Horsley Curties; William Henry Ireland; and others --
- Surrealism and the Gothic novel.
