Contesting the Gothic
Fiction, Genre and Cultural Conflict, 1764-1832
James Watt's historically grounded account of Gothic fiction, first published in 1999, takes issue with received accounts of the genre as a stable and continuous tradition. Charting its vicissitudes from Walpole to Scott, Watt shows the Gothic to have been a heterogeneous body of fiction, characterized at times by antagonistic relations between various writers or works. Central to his argument about these works' writing and reception is a nuanced understanding of their political import: Walpole's attempt to forge an aristocratic identity, the loyalist affiliations of many neglected works of the 1790s, a reconsideration of the subversive reput…
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- ISBN: 978-0-511-03623-1
- EAN: 9780511036231
- Produktnummer: 13832565
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
- Seitenangabe: 0 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 1'785 KB
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