Spectres of Antiquity: Classical Literature and the Gothic, 1740-1830

Spectres of Antiquity

Classical Literature and the Gothic, 1740-1830
 
Publisher: OUP USA
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ISBN13:9780190910273
ISBN10:0190910275
Binding:Hardback
No. of pages:280 pages
Size:247x165x29 mm
Weight:556 g
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
Introduction
1. Gothic and Classical in Eighteenth-Century Criticism: Ghosts, Knights, and the Sublime
2. Horace Walpole, Gothic Classicism, and the Aesthetics of Collection
3. Ann Radcliffe's Classical Remembrances
4. Queer Urges and the Act of Translation: Matthew Lewis
5. Classical Idols and the Early American Gothic: the Skepticism of Charles Brockden Brown
6. Embodied Antiquity: Mary Shelley's Relationships with the Past
Afterword: Haunting or Reception?