[PDF] Gothic Literature 1764 1824 eBook

Author : Carol Margaret Davison
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 46,33 MB
Release : 2009-06-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1783163879

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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.

Author : Carol Margaret Davison
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 44,24 MB
Release : 2009-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0708322611

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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 : T. Wein
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 44,72 MB
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349429615

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British Identities, Heroic Nationalisms, and the Gothic Novel, 1764-1824 considers three interlocking developments of this period: the emergence of the Gothic novel at a time when national upheavals required the construction of a new nationalist identity, the Gothic novel's redefinition of heroes and heroism in that nationalist debate, and changes within class and gender as well as audience and author relations. The scope of this study extends beyond the confines of the novel proper to include chapbooks and illustrated redactions.

Author : Jarlath Killeen
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,65 MB
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0708322441

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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 : T. Wein
Publisher : Springer
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 45,12 MB
Release : 2002-07-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1403913684

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British Identities, Heroic Nationalisms, and the Gothic Novel, 1764-1824 considers three interlocking developments of this period: the emergence of the Gothic novel at a time when national upheavals required the construction of a new nationalist identity, the Gothic novel's redefinition of heroes and heroism in that nationalist debate, and changes within class and gender as well as audience and author relations. The scope of this study extends beyond the confines of the novel proper to include chapbooks and illustrated redactions.

Author : Margarita Georgieva
Publisher : Springer
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 28,33 MB
Release : 2013-10-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1137306076

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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
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 44,84 MB
Release : 2014-05-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1783160497

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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 : Jerrold E. Hogle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 28,32 MB
Release : 2002-08-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107494486

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Gothic as a form of fiction-making has played a major role in Western culture since the late eighteenth century. In this volume, fourteen world-class experts on the Gothic provide thorough and revealing accounts of this haunting-to-horrifying type of fiction from the 1760s (the decade of The Castle of Otranto, the first so-called 'Gothic story') to the end of the twentieth century (an era haunted by filmed and computerized Gothic simulations). Along the way, these essays explore the connections of Gothic fictions to political and industrial revolutions, the realistic novel, the theatre, Romantic and post-Romantic poetry, nationalism and racism from Europe to America, colonized and post-colonial populations, the rise of film and other visual technologies, the struggles between 'high' and 'popular' culture, changing psychological attitudes towards human identity, gender and sexuality, and the obscure lines between life and death, sanity and madness. The volume also includes a chronology and guides to further reading.