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Contesting the Gothic : fiction, genre and cultural conflict, 1764-1832 / James Watt.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 33.Publication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.Description: 1 online resource (x, 205 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0511005180
  • 9780511005183
  • 051103623X
  • 9780511036231
  • 0511150113
  • 9780511150111
  • 0511051468
  • 9780511051463
  • 051111723X
  • 9780511117237
  • 9780521640992
  • 0521640997
  • 9780511484674
  • 0511484674
  • 1107116112
  • 9781107116115
  • 1280153571
  • 9781280153570
  • 0511310013
  • 9780511310010
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Contesting the Gothic.DDC classification:
  • 823/.0872909/09033 21
LOC classification:
  • PR858.T3 W38 1999eb
Other classification:
  • 17.86
  • 18.05
Online resources:
Contents:
Origins : Horace Walpole and The castle of Otranto -- Loyalist gothic romance -- Gothic 'subversion': German literature, the Minerva Press, Matthew Lewis -- First poetess of romantic fiction: Ann Radcliffe -- Field of romance: Walter Scott, the Waverley novels, the Gothic.
Summary: Charting its vicissitudes from Walpole to Scott, James Watt shows the Gothic to have been a heterogeneous body of fiction, characterised at times by antagonistic relations between writers or works. He examines the novels' political import, and looks ahead to the fluctuating critical status of Scott and the Gothic.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-200) and index.

Origins : Horace Walpole and The castle of Otranto -- Loyalist gothic romance -- Gothic 'subversion': German literature, the Minerva Press, Matthew Lewis -- First poetess of romantic fiction: Ann Radcliffe -- Field of romance: Walter Scott, the Waverley novels, the Gothic.

Charting its vicissitudes from Walpole to Scott, James Watt shows the Gothic to have been a heterogeneous body of fiction, characterised at times by antagonistic relations between writers or works. He examines the novels' political import, and looks ahead to the fluctuating critical status of Scott and the Gothic.

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