THE GOTHIC TEXT Hardback
by Marshall Brown
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Romantic gothic fiction is not exciting. Gothic novels are not ghost stories. Gothic novels are not women's writing. Opening with these three theses, The Gothic Text undertakes a fresh approach to a much-studied mode.
Marshall Brown combines the teleological approach to literary history developed in his Preromanticism with a European perspective on the one truly international literary form of its era.
New insights into literary history and the history of ideas provide a framework for innovative close readings-of Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto, Ann Radcliffe's The Italian, and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, among others-that approach classics of the genre from unusual angles.
The book also provides a thoroughly researched account of German romantic psychology as it developed out of Kant's idealist philosophy into a gothic sensibility.
Accessibly written and argued in careful, lively detail, The Gothic Text gives many new impulses to the study of romanticism, nineteenth-century fiction, and the origins of psychoanalysis.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:312 pages
- Publisher:Stanford University Press
- Publication Date:03/01/2005
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- ISBN:9780804739122
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:312 pages
- Publisher:Stanford University Press
- Publication Date:03/01/2005
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- ISBN:9780804739122