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    Product details:

    • Edition number 2007
    • Publisher Red Globe Press
    • Date of Publication 20 July 2007
    • Number of Volumes Paperback

    • ISBN 9781403936677
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages192 pages
    • Size 235x155 mm
    • Weight 231 g
    • Language English
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    Short description:

    What is the Gothic? Few literary genres have attracted so much praise and critical disdain simultaneously. This Guide returns to the Gothic novel's first wave of popularity, between 1764 and 1820, to explore and analyse the full range of contradictory responses that the Gothic evoked. Angela Wright appraises the key criticism surrounding the Gothic fiction of this period, from eighteenth-century accounts to present-day commentaries. Adopting an easy-to-follow thematic approach, the Guide examines:

    - contemporary criticism of the Gothic
    - the aesthetics of terror and horror
    - the influence of the French Revolution
    - religion, nationalism and the Gothic
    - the relationship between psychoanalysis and the Gothic
    - the relationship between gender and the Gothic.

    Concise and authoritative, this indispensable Guide provides an overview of Gothic criticism and covers the work of a variety of well-known Gothic writers, such as Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe, Matthew Lewis and many others.

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    Long description:

    What is the Gothic? Few literary genres have attracted so much praise and critical disdain simultaneously. This Guide returns to the Gothic novel's first wave of popularity, between 1764 and 1820, to explore and analyse the full range of contradictory responses that the Gothic evoked. Angela Wright appraises the key criticism surrounding the Gothic fiction of this period, from 18th century accounts to present-day commentaries. Adopting an easy-to-follow thematic approach, the Guide examines:

    - Contemporary criticism of the Gothic
    - The aesthetics of terror and horror
    - The influence of the French Revolution
    - Religion, nationalism and the Gothic
    - The relationship between psychoanalysis and the Gothic
    - The relationship between gender and the Gothic.

    Concise and authoritative, this indispensable Guide provides an overview of Gothic criticism and covers the work of a variety of well-known Gothic writers, such as Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe, Matthew Lewis and many others.

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    Table of Contents:

    Acknowledgements
    Introduction
    'Terrorist Novel Writing': The Contemporary Reception of Gothic
    Terror and Horror: Gothic Struggles
    'Our hearths, our sepulchres': The Gothic and the French Revolution'
    'The sanctuary is prophaned': Religion, Nationalism and the Gothic
    'This narrative resembles a delirious dream': Psychoanalytical Readings of the Gothic
    'It is not ours to make election for ourselves': Gender and the Gothic
    Conclusion
    Notes
    Bibliography
    Index.

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