Gothic literature 1764-1824
Başlık:
Gothic literature 1764-1824
Yazar:
Davison, Carol Margaret, author.
ISBN:
9780708322611
9780708320099
9780708320457
Yayın Bilgisi:
Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2009.
Fiziksel Niteleme:
1 online resource (xiii, 368 pages).
Seri:
Gothic literary studies
History of the Gothic
History of the Gothic (Cardiff, Wales)
Gothic literary studies.
İçindekiler:
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.
Özet:
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.