@inbook{0d5bbd9e455b4131a9af40e289c6a250,
title = "Graveyard Poetry and the Aesthetics of Horror",
abstract = "Eighteenth-century graveyard poetry has recently gained increasing attention as an important precursor to gothic fiction. Although critical consensus suggests that graveyard poetry{\textquoteright}s objectives of religious and moral reform are distinguished from the gothic pursuit of pleasurable frisson, a case can be made for reading graveyard poetry as an example of—rather than merely antecedent to—gothic literature. Accordingly, this chapter presents a reading of Robert Blair{\textquoteright}s The Grave (1743) as an example of gothic horror, exposing an elaborate set of aesthetics and literary techniques that anticipates late-century critical definitions of horror, and novels such as Matthew Lewis{\textquoteright} The Monk (1796).",
keywords = "Gothic, Graveyard poetry, horror, eighteenth-century literature, Robert Blair",
author = "Eric Parisot",
year = "2022",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-030-84562-9_12",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783030845612",
pages = "245--262",
editor = "Clive Bloom",
booktitle = "The Palgrave Handbook of Gothic Origins",
publisher = "Palgrave Macmillan",
address = "United Kingdom",
}