The _Mysteries of Udolpho_ they're reading in the quoted bit is fun! A thoroughly far-ranging Gothic oddity... I forgot how inter-textual the two books are.
One I actually know better than Austen or Bronte... I was confused between the two and was hoping to be Jane Eyre... which was of course impossible. I seem to be forgetting the British stuff, especially. I want a Hawthorne quiz and want to be one of the lot in _The Marble Faun_ ... that set looks a lot like the people I hang out with...
Have you read 'The beleaguered city' by Mrs Oliphant? Great fun and very melodramatically gothic She was a huge best seller in her day (gets quoted in Kipling's: 'Stalky and Co' when the boys set up a prank using ideas from her book) but has been largely forgotten since. I think Wordsworth Classics have reprinted her work quite recently.
Oh yes... there's a whole marvelous list in Usher... which partly reveals Poe's far ranging dark mysticism, and like _Eureaka_ suggests a gnostic temperament.
Usher is a truly extraordinary story... an archetypal marvel of some sort.
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One I actually know better than Austen or Bronte... I was confused between the two and was hoping to be Jane Eyre... which was of course impossible. I seem to be forgetting the British stuff, especially. I want a Hawthorne quiz and want to be one of the lot in _The Marble Faun_ ... that set looks a lot like the people I hang out with...
I am Marianne Dashwood, like dulcimergoddess.
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Usher is a truly extraordinary story... an archetypal marvel of some sort.
Poe was also Abraxian... but not Eudaimonist. ;-)
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