Sandner (English, California State U.-Fullerton) surveys explicit and implicit discussions of the supernatural in literature, placing the origin of both the practice and the discourse about it
long before the Romantic period that is generally supposed to have spawned them. His topics include the fairy way of writing; the sublime and the fantastic in Joseph Addison, Longinus, and
Edmond Burke; Gothick pasts and Gothick futures in Horace Walpole and Mary Shelley; fairy unexplained in Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho; William Wordsworth and "Fable's Dark Abyss;"
and Coleridge and Anna Letitia Barbauld on The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Annotation 穢2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
