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E.J. Clery’s comprehensive study charts how supernatural fiction emerged as an unlikely but lucrative genre during the Age of Enlightenment. From the sensational Cock Lane ghost to Garrick’s haunted Hamlet, Clery examines key events and influential writers such as Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe, and M. G. Lewis. He argues that ghost stories flourished as both commercial successes in an increasingly market‑driven publishing industry and as cultural reflections of societal transformation. By situating these works within their historical context, Clery offers a fresh perspective on the genre’s role in the transition from Enlightenment rationalism to Romantic imagination.
First publish date: 1995
Genre: History/Modern History
Authors: E. J. Clery
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