Contesting the Gothic : fiction, genre and cultural conflict, 1764-1832 /

Charting its vicissitudes from Walpole to Scott, James Watt shows the Gothic to have been a heterogeneous body of fiction, characterised at times by antagonistic relations between writers or works. He examines the novels' political import, and looks ahead to the fluctuating critical status of S...

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Huvudupphovsman: Watt, James
Materialtyp: Licensed eBooks
Språk:engelska
Publicerad: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Serie:Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 33.
Länkar:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=55745
Innehållsförteckning:
  • Origins : Horace Walpole and The castle of Otranto
  • Loyalist gothic romance
  • Gothic 'subversion': German literature, the Minerva Press, Matthew Lewis
  • First poetess of romantic fiction: Ann Radcliffe
  • Field of romance: Walter Scott, the Waverley novels, the Gothic.