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Angela Wright
ISBN: 9781403936677
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Palgrave USA
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Focuses upon Gothic fiction produced predominantly in the Romantic era (1780-1820). This title assembles some of the critical writings about Romantic Gothic literature since its inception. It begins by charting the moral and political panic provoked by Gothic's popularity in the 1790s, and then examines the genre's recuperation.
This Reader's Guide focuses upon Gothic fiction produced predominantly in the Romantic era (1780-1820). Angela Wright assembles some of the most important critical writings about Romantic Gothic literature since its inception to the present day. The Guide begins by charting the moral and political panic provoked by Gothic's increasing popularity in the 1790s, and then examines the genre's recuperation as a serious area of literary study through aesthetic, political, psychoanalytic and gender criticism.
| ISBN | 1403936676 | | Pages | 192 | | ISBN13 | 9781403936677
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Palgrave USA | | Weight (grammes) | 254 | | Imprint | Palgrave Macmillan | | Published in | Gordonsville | | Format | Paperback | | Series title | Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism | | Publication date | 20 Jul 2007 | | Height (mm) | 217 | | Library of Congress | 2006052781 | | Width (mm) | 138 | | DEWEY | 823.0872909 | | Spine width (mm) | 11 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Academic level | Undergraduate, Postgraduate, A / AS level |
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| | | Introduction : what is the Gothic? : an analysis of the transformation of the term 'Gothic' in the eighteenth century | | 1 | | Ch. 1 | | 'Terrorist novel writing' : the contemporary reception of the gothic | | 7 | | Ch. 2 | | 'Terror and horror' : gothic struggles | | 35 | | Ch. 3 | | 'Our hearths, our sepulchres' : the gothic and the French Revolution | | 57 | | Ch. 4 | | 'The sanctuary is prophaned' : religion, nationalism and the gothic | | 74 | | Ch. 5 | | 'This narrative resembles a delirious dream' : psychoanalytical readings of the gothic | | 97 | | Ch. 6 | | 'It is not ours to make election for ourselves' : gender and the gothic | | 125 |
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