Gothic literature 1764-1824 /

Davison, Carol Margaret,

Gothic literature 1764-1824 / Carol Margaret Davison. - Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2009. - 1 online resource (xiii, 368 pages). - Gothic literary studies History of the Gothic . - History of the Gothic (Cardiff, Wales) Gothic literary studies. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-353) and index.

Gothic enlightenment/enlightenment gothic -- Anatomizing the gothic -- The female gothic -- Revolutionary gothic/gothic revolutions -- Female gothic reconfigurations -- The gothic romantics/romanticizing the gothic -- Revitalizing the gothic -- Afterword -- Victorian gothic -- Endnotes -- Bibliography -- Annotated bibliography.

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 f.

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Gothic fiction (Literary genre)--History and criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM--European--English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM--Gothic & Romance.
Gothic fiction (Literary genre)


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