Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 368 pages)
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0708322611
,
9780708322611
Serie:
Gothic literary studies
Inhalt:
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 f
Inhalt:
Gothic enlightenment/enlightenment gothic -- Anatomizing the gothic -- The female gothic -- Revolutionary gothic/gothic revolutions -- Female gothic reconfigurations -- The gothic romantics/romanticizing the gothic -- Revitalizing the gothic -- Afterword -- Victorian gothic -- Endnotes -- Bibliography -- Annotated bibliography
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-353) and index
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780708320099
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Davison, Carol Margaret Gothic literature 1764-1824 Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2009
Sprache:
Englisch
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