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Author | : Carol Margaret Davison |
Publisher | : University of Wales Press |
Total Pages | : 387 |
Release | : 2009-06-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1783163879 |
This title offers a detailed yet accessible introduction to classic British Gothic literature and the popular sub-category of the Female Gothic designed for the student reader. Works by such classic Gothic authors as Horace Walpole, Matthew Lewis, Ann Radcliffe, William Godwin, and Mary Shelley are examined against the backdrop of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British social and political history and significant intellectual/cultural developments. Identification and interpretation of the Gothic’s variously reconfigured major motifs and conventions is provided alongside suggestions for further critical reading, a timeline of notable Gothic-related publications, and consideration of various theoretical approaches.
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Gothic fiction (Literary genre) |
ISBN | : 9780708320457 |
Author | : Carol Margaret Davison |
Publisher | : University of Wales Press |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2009-12-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0708322611 |
Offers an introduction to British Gothic literature. This book examines works by Gothic authors such as Horace Walpole, Matthew Lewis, Ann Radcliffe, William Godwin and Mary Shelley against the backdrop of eighteenth-and-nineteenth-century British social and political history.
Author | : Jarlath Killeen |
Publisher | : University of Wales Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2009-07-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0708322441 |
Examines how themes and trends associated with the early Gothic novels were diffused in many genres in the Victorian period, including the ghost story, the detective story and the adventure story.
Author | : Kathleen Hudson |
Publisher | : University of Wales Press |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2018-12-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1786833417 |
• This book explores a complex historical background to fully contextualise the development of the early Gothic mode and the servant character’s role as a speaking and performing figure in literature. • This book includes a comprehensive engagement with a wide range of source texts, unpacking the theoretical elements of the Gothic mode through close-readings of individual works. • This book brings together readings of novels, plays, and adaptations (both contemporary and modern) to construct a full picture of the literary and cultural forces that shaped the literary servant’s role and the Gothic mode’s identity. • This book addresses a critically important yet much underrepresented area of Gothic studies by examining servant characters and their use of narrative.
Author | : Rictor Norton |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 788 |
Release | : 2005-04-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780826485854 |
This is an anthology of Gothic Literature, set within the context of contemporary criticism and readers' responses. It includes selections from the major practitioners and many of their followers, as well as contemporary reviews, private letters and diaries, chapbooks, and contemporary anecdotes about dramatic performances and the design of theatre sets. The selections provide representative samples of the major genres - historical gothic, the Radcliffe school of terror, the Lewis school of horror, tragic melodrama, comic parody, supernatural poetry and ballads, book reviews and literary criticism and anti-Gothic polemic.
Author | : Jonathan Dent |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2016-07-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1784997986 |
Sinister histories is the first book to offer a detailed exploration of the Gothic's response to Enlightenment historiography. It uncovers hitherto-neglected relationships between fiction and prominent works of eighteenth-century history, locating the Gothic novel in a range of new interdisciplinary contexts. Drawing on ideas from literary studies, history, politics and philosophy, the book demonstrates the extent to which historical works influenced and shaped Gothic fiction from the 1760s to the early nineteenth century. Through a series of detailed readings of texts from The Castle of Otranto (1764) to Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman (1798), this book offers an alternative account of the Gothic's development and a sustained revaluation of the creative legacies of the French Revolution.
Author | : Margarita Georgieva |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2013-10-17 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1137306076 |
Fascination with the dark and death threats are now accepted features of contemporary fantasy and fantastic fictions for young readers. These go back to the early gothic genre in which child characters were extensively used by authors. The aim of this book is to rediscover the children in their work.
Author | : Diane Long Hoeveler |
Publisher | : University of Wales Press |
Total Pages | : 375 |
Release | : 2014-05-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1783160497 |
The Gothic Ideology argues that in order to modernize and secularize, the British Protestant imaginary needed an 'other' against which it could define itself as a culture and a nation with distinct boundaries. The 'Gothic ideology' is identified as an intense religious anxiety, produced by the aftershocks of the Protestant reformation, the Catholic Counter-Reformation, and the dynastic upheavals produced by both events in England, Germany, and France, and was played out in hundreds of Gothic texts published throughout Europe between the mid-eighteenth century and 1880. This book is the first to read the Gothic ideology through the historical context of both King Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries and the extensive French anti-clerical and pornographic works that were well-known to Horace Walpole and Matthew Lewis. The book argues that Gothic was thoroughly invested in a crude form of anti-Catholicism that fed lower class prejudices against the passage of a variety of Catholic Relief Acts that had been pending in Parliament since 1788 and finally passed in 1829.
Author | : Jarlath Killeen |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2013-12-11 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0748690816 |
Provides a new account of the emergence of Irish gothic fiction in mid-eighteenth century This book provides a robustly theorised and thoroughly historicised account of the 'beginnings' of Irish gothic fiction, maps the theoretical terrain covered by other critics, and puts forward a new history of the emergence of the genre in Ireland. The main argument the book makes is that the Irish gothic should be read in the context of the split in Irish Anglican public opinion that opened in the 1750s, and seen as a fictional instrument of liberal Anglican opinion in a changing political landscape. By providing a fully historicized account of the beginnings of the genre in Ireland, the book also addresses the theoretical controversies that have bedevilled discussion of the Irish gothic in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. The book gives ample space to the critical debate, and rigorously defends a reading of the Irish gothic as an Anglican, Patriot tradition. This reading demonstrates the connections between little-known Irish gothic fictions of the mid-eighteenth century (The Adventures of Miss Sophia Berkley and Longsword), and the Irish gothic tradition more generally, and also the gothic as a genre of global significance.