Gothic Fiction
1st Edition
Published on 20. July 2007
192 pages
978-1-350-30937-1 (ISBN)
Description
What is the Gothic? Few literary genres have attracted so much praise and critical disdain simultaneously. This Guide returns to the Gothic novel's first wave of popularity, between 1764 and 1820, to explore and analyse the full range of contradictory responses that the Gothic evoked. Angela Wright appraises the key criticism surrounding the Gothic fiction of this period, from 18th century accounts to present-day commentaries. Adopting an easy-to-follow thematic approach, the Guide examines:
- Contemporary criticism of the Gothic
- The aesthetics of terror and horror
- The influence of the French Revolution
- Religion, nationalism and the Gothic
- The relationship between psychoanalysis and the Gothic
- The relationship between gender and the Gothic.
Concise and authoritative, this indispensable Guide provides an overview of Gothic criticism and covers the work of a variety of well-known Gothic writers, such as Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe, Matthew Lewis and many others.
- Contemporary criticism of the Gothic
- The aesthetics of terror and horror
- The influence of the French Revolution
- Religion, nationalism and the Gothic
- The relationship between psychoanalysis and the Gothic
- The relationship between gender and the Gothic.
Concise and authoritative, this indispensable Guide provides an overview of Gothic criticism and covers the work of a variety of well-known Gothic writers, such as Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe, Matthew Lewis and many others.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
978-1-350-30937-1 (9781350309371)
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ANGELA WRIGHT is Lecturer in Romantic Literature at the University of Sheffield, UK. She has published numerous articles on the reception of Gothic fiction during the Romantic era in Britain, and women's Gothic writing.
Content
Acknowledgements
Introduction
'Terrorist Novel Writing': The Contemporary Reception of Gothic
Terror and Horror: Gothic Struggles
'Our hearths, our sepulchres': The Gothic and the French Revolution'
'The sanctuary is prophaned': Religion, Nationalism and the Gothic
'This narrative resembles a delirious dream': Psychoanalytical Readings of the Gothic
'It is not ours to make election for ourselves': Gender and the Gothic
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index.
Introduction
'Terrorist Novel Writing': The Contemporary Reception of Gothic
Terror and Horror: Gothic Struggles
'Our hearths, our sepulchres': The Gothic and the French Revolution'
'The sanctuary is prophaned': Religion, Nationalism and the Gothic
'This narrative resembles a delirious dream': Psychoanalytical Readings of the Gothic
'It is not ours to make election for ourselves': Gender and the Gothic
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index.
