TY - BOOK AU - Davison,Carol Margaret TI - Gothic literature 1764-1824 T2 - Gothic literary studies SN - 9780708322611 AV - PR830.T3 D38 2009eb U1 - 823/.087209 22 PY - 2009/// CY - Cardiff PB - University of Wales Press KW - Gothic fiction (Literary genre) KW - History and criticism KW - LITERARY CRITICISM KW - European KW - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh KW - bisacsh KW - Gothic & Romance KW - fast KW - Electronic books KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=307416 ER -