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(anon.); Old Norse Völsungsaga (anon., written down c. thirteenth century);
fourteenth-century Arthur and Gorgalon (anon.).
4. See Jacobus Sprenger and Heinrich Kramer, Malleus Maleficarum (1486);
Jean Bodin, De la Demonomanie des Sorciers (Paris, 1580); Henri Boguet,
Discours des Sorciers (Lyons, 1590); George Bores, trans., A True Discourse
Declaring the Damnable Life and Death of One Stubbe Peeter (original
trial manuscript) (London, 1590); James I, Daemonologie (Edinburgh,
1597).
5. See Johann Wier, De Praestigiis Daemonum (Basel, 1563); Reginald Scot,
The Discoverie of Witchcraft (London, 1584); Robert Burton, The Anatomy
of Melancholy (London, 1621).
6. Laurent Bordelon, ‘Preface’, A History of the Ridiculous Extravagancies
of Monsieur Oufle (1711; originally published in French, 1710) (London
and New York: Garland Publishing, 1973), p. i.
7. Ibid., p. 8.
8. Ibid., p. 5.
9. David Punter, The Literature of Terror: A History of Gothic Fictions from
1765 to the Present Day, vol. 2: The Modern Gothic (London and New York:
Longman, 1996), pp. 202–3.
10. Tobin Siebers, The Romantic Fantastic (Ithaca and London: Cornell
University Press, 1984), p. 21.
11. The asterisked statement appears as a footnote in the original publication.
Charles Robert Maturin, The Albigenses, vol. 2 (1824) (New York: Arno
Press, 1974), pp. 262–3.
12. Raymond Williams, Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society
(Glasgow: Fontana, 1976), pp. 152, 153.
13. Leopold von Ranke, ‘Preface’ to Histories of the Latin and Germanic
Nations from 1494–1514 (1824), reprinted in F. Stern (ed.), The Varieties
of History (London: Macmillan, 1970), p. 57.
14. Ranke, quoted in Peter Gay and Victor G. Wexler (eds), Historians at
Work, vol. 3 (New York, Harper & Row, 1975), p. 17.
15. Ranke, ‘Preface’ in Stern (ed.), The Varieties of History, p. 57.
16. In Émile (1762), Rousseau wrote: ‘The misuse of books is the death of
sound learning. People think they know what they have read, and take no
pains to learn. Too much reading only produces a pretentious ignoramus.
There was never so much reading in any age as the present, and never was
there less learning.’ Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Émile, trans. Barbara Foxley
(London: J.M. Dent, 1974), quoted in Niall Lucy, Postmodern Literary
Theory (Oxford: Blackwell, 1997), pp. 45–6.
17. Edward Said, paraphrased by Anne McClintock, Imperial Leather: Race,
Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest (New York and London:
Routledge, 1995), p. 300.
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