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Author | : Daniel Hall |
Publisher | : Peter Lang |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9783039100774 |
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The literature of terror and horror continues to fascinate readers both casual and more critical, and it has long been recognised as an international, not merely British, phenomenon. This study provides an in-depth and text-based analysis of Gothic fiction in France and Germany from earlier literary traditions, through the influence of the English Gothic novel, to an extraordinary popularity and dominance by the end of the eighteenth century. It examines how some of the motifs most closely associated with the Gothic - secret societies, the supernatural and suspense, among others - are the product of an uncertain age, and how the use of those motifs differed not just across languages and borders, which in fact the Gothic often crossed with ease, but according to the views, concerns and sometimes insecurities of individual authors. What emerges is a complex genre more diverse than any 'list of Gothic ingredients' would have us believe. Many of the notions and devices explored by the French and German Gothic then continue to intrigue, disturb and unsettle today.
Author | : Mary Ellen Snodgrass |
Publisher | : Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages | : 497 |
Release | : 2014-05-14 |
Genre | : Gothic revival (Literature) |
ISBN | : 1438109113 |
Download Encyclopedia of Gothic Literature Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Presents an alphabetical reference guide detailing the lives and works of authors associated with Gothic literature.
Author | : Angela Wright |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 2013-04-18 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 110703406X |
Download Britain, France and the Gothic, 1764-1820 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Explores the development of the Gothic through the history of martial, political and literary conflict between Britain and France.
Author | : Nicole Bauer |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2022-11-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3031122364 |
Download Tracing the Shadow of Secrecy and Government Transparency in Eighteenth-Century France Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book traces changing attitudes towards secrecy in eighteenth-century France, and explores the cultural origins of ideas surrounding government transparency. The idea of keeping secrets, both on the part of individuals and on the part of governments, came to be viewed with more suspicion as the century progressed. By the eve of the French Revolution, writers voicing concerns about corruption saw secrecy as part and parcel of despotism, and this shift went hand in hand with the rise of the idea of transparency. The author argues that the emphasis placed on government transparency, especially the mania for transparency that dominated the French Revolution, resulted from the surprising connections and confluence of changing attitudes towards honour, religious movements, rising nationalism, literature, and police practices. Exploring religious ideas that associated secrecy with darkness and wickedness, and proto-nationalist discourse that equated foreignness with secrecy, this book demonstrates how cultural shifts in eighteenth-century France influenced its politics. Covering the period of intense fear during the French Revolution and the paranoia of the Reign of Terror, the book highlights the complex interplay of culture and politics and provides insights into our attitudes towards secrecy today.
Author | : Carol Margaret Davison |
Publisher | : University of Wales Press |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2009-12-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0708322611 |
Download History of the Gothic: Gothic Literature 1764-1824 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : Jerrold E. Hogle |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2002-08-29 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521794664 |
Download The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Gothic as a form of fiction-making has played a major role in Western culture since the late eighteenth century. Here 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.
Author | : Jerrold E. Hogle |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 526 |
Release | : 2002-08-29 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1107494486 |
Download The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Angela Wright |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 929 |
Release | : 2020-08-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1316999645 |
Download The Cambridge History of the Gothic: Volume 1, Gothic in the Long Eighteenth Century Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This first volume of The Cambridge History of the Gothic provides a rigorous account of the Gothic in Western civilisation, from the Goths' sacking of Rome in 410 AD through to its manifestations in British and European culture of the long eighteenth century. Written by international cast of leading scholars, the chapters explore the interdisciplinary nature of the Gothic in the fields of history, literature, architecture and fine art. As much a cultural history of Gothic as an account of the ways in which the Gothic has participated within a number of formative historical events across time, the volume offers fresh perspectives on familiar themes while also drawing new critical attention to a range of hitherto overlooked concerns. From writers such as Horace Walpole and Ann Radcliffe to eighteenth-century politics and theatre, the volume provides a thorough and engaging overview of early Gothic culture in Britain and beyond.
Author | : Diane Long Hoeveler |
Publisher | : University of Wales Press |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2014-05-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1783161930 |
Download The Gothic Ideology Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : Stefanie Stockhorst |
Publisher | : Rodopi |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9042029501 |
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