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Definition of Gothic romancer
1. Noun. A writer of Gothic romances.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gothic Romancer
Literary usage of Gothic romancer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Development of the English Novel by Wilbur Lucius Cross (1899)
"And yet the Gothic romancer helped to make the English novel what it is to-day.
He rightly insisted that literature is not merely utilitarian: that there is ..."
2. The Study of a Novel by Selden Lincoln Whitcomb (1905)
"In the preface of Frankenstein, Mrs. Shelley gives this frank testimony of the
Gothic romancer: " Oh if I could only . . . frighten my reader as I myself ..."
3. History of American Literature by Reuben Post Halleck (1911)
"... then to Brown belongs the honor of first recognizing in the Indian a valuable
literary asset from the Gothic romancer's point of view. ..."
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