THE GOTHIC FLAME: BEING A HISTORY OF THE GOTHIC NOVEL IN ENGLAND: ITS ORIGINS, EFFLORESCENCE, DISINTEGRATION, AND RESIDUARY INFLUENCES

by Devendra P. Varma

$150 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition · Signed

London: Arthur Barker Ltd, 1957 . Octavo, pp. i-vi vii-ix x xi-xv xvi 1-264, cloth. First edition. A presentation copy with a warm signed inscription by Varma to Florence and Sam Russell dated 1968 on the front free endpaper. In this history of the rise and fall of British Gothicism, Devendra P. Varma seeks to demonstrate the long-term importance of its philosophies, atmospherics and conventions to nineteenth-century

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