the ghost story vs the gothic story
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Another quote from the introduction to The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales, on the difference between the orthodox ghost story and the gothic story. “At the close of his narrative [in the orthodox ghost story], the materialist doubters are silenced, and some moralizing is made to the effect that there are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in the narrow secular philosophies of bolshevists, suffragettes, and the other democratic do-gooders of this rationalist age….Gothic fiction, on the other hand, usually shows no such respect for the wisdom of the past, and indeed tends to portray former ages as prisons of delusions.”
dfordoom)Another quote from the introduction to The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales, on the difference between the orthodox ghost story and the gothic story. “At the close of his narrative [in the orthodox ghost story], the materialist doubters are silenced, and some moralizing is made to the effect that there are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in the narrow secular philosophies of bolshevists, suffragettes, and the other democratic do-gooders of this rationalist age….Gothic fiction, on the other hand, usually shows no such respect for the wisdom of the past, and indeed tends to portray former ages as prisons of delusions.”
