This iconoclastic book challenges and changes accepted opinions about the Gothic novel, and will introduce the British and American Reader to works hitherto unknown to them, but rivals in quality to the works of writers like Radcliffe, Lewis and Stoker.
Autorentext
Dr Matthew Gibson is associate professor of English literature at the University of Macau, China.
Zusammenfassung
This book examines the rise of Fantastic literature on the continent in the nineteenth century, the development of a European Gothic and the influence which this exerted on British writers. By examining writers like Nodier, Hoffmann, Gautier, Feval and Stevenson, the book argues firstly how their writings subvert entirely the view of the Fantastic accepted by Todorov, Punter and others, to show that it is the reversal of a pre-Enlightenment, spiritual world-view which causes terror in these works, and further demonstrates that Gothic novels frequently use allusion and anachronism to portray a cyclical view of history opposed to that of Scott.
Titel
The Fantastic and European Gothic
Untertitel
History, Literature and the French Revolution
Autor
EAN
9780708326916
Format
E-Book (epub)
Hersteller
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Wasserzeichen
Anzahl Seiten
272
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