The Fantastic and European Gothic : History, Literature and the French Revolution.

By:

Gibson, Matthew

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Gothic literary studiesPublication details: Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2013.Description: 1 online resource (256 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780708325735
0708325734
9780708326916
0708326919
0708325726
9780708325728

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Fantastic and European Gothic : History, Literature and the French Revolution.DDC classification:

809.38729

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PN3499

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Contents:

Acknowledgements; Introduction; Fantasy and Counter-Revolution in the Theory and Fiction of Charles Nodier; History and Politics in the Fantastic Fiction of Hoffmann, and his Reception in France; The Double Life of the Artist in the Récits fantastiques of Théophile Gautier, and the Rejection of Bourgeois Life under the July Monarchy; 'A Life in Death a Death in Life': the Legitimist Novels of Paul Féval and the Catastrophe of the Second Empire; Paul Féval's Le Chevalier Ténèbre and Le Fanu's 'The Room in the Dragon Volant': the Failures of the Bourbon Restoration.

Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Olalla', The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and the Refutation of Utilitarian MoralityConclusion; Notes; Short Chronology of Relevant Events; Bibliography; Index.

Summary: 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.

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Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Olalla', The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and the Refutation of Utilitarian MoralityConclusion; Notes; Short Chronology of Relevant Events; Bibliography; Index.

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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