Author: Michael Gamer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139426842
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
This is the first full-length study to examine the links between high Romantic literature and what has often been thought of as a merely popular genre - the Gothic. Michael Gamer offers a sharply focused analysis of how and why Romantic writers drew on Gothic conventions whilst, at the same time, denying their influence in order to claim critical respectability. He shows how the reception of Gothic literature, including its institutional and commercial recognition as a form of literature, played a fundamental role in the development of Romanticism as an ideology. In doing so he examines the early history of the Romantic movement and its assumptions about literary value, and the politics of reading, writing and reception at the end of the eighteenth century. As a whole the book makes an original contribution to our understanding of genre, tracing the impact of reception, marketing and audience on its formation.
Romanticism and the Gothic
Author: Michael Gamer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139426842
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
This is the first full-length study to examine the links between high Romantic literature and what has often been thought of as a merely popular genre - the Gothic. Michael Gamer offers a sharply focused analysis of how and why Romantic writers drew on Gothic conventions whilst, at the same time, denying their influence in order to claim critical respectability. He shows how the reception of Gothic literature, including its institutional and commercial recognition as a form of literature, played a fundamental role in the development of Romanticism as an ideology. In doing so he examines the early history of the Romantic movement and its assumptions about literary value, and the politics of reading, writing and reception at the end of the eighteenth century. As a whole the book makes an original contribution to our understanding of genre, tracing the impact of reception, marketing and audience on its formation.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139426842
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
This is the first full-length study to examine the links between high Romantic literature and what has often been thought of as a merely popular genre - the Gothic. Michael Gamer offers a sharply focused analysis of how and why Romantic writers drew on Gothic conventions whilst, at the same time, denying their influence in order to claim critical respectability. He shows how the reception of Gothic literature, including its institutional and commercial recognition as a form of literature, played a fundamental role in the development of Romanticism as an ideology. In doing so he examines the early history of the Romantic movement and its assumptions about literary value, and the politics of reading, writing and reception at the end of the eighteenth century. As a whole the book makes an original contribution to our understanding of genre, tracing the impact of reception, marketing and audience on its formation.
Romantic Medicine and the Gothic Imagination
Author: Laura R. Kremmel
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1786838508
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
This book debates a crossover between the Gothic and the medical imagination in the Romantic period. It explores the gore and uncertainty typical of medical experimentation, and expands the possibilities of medical theories in a speculative space by a focus on Gothic novels, short stories, poetry, drama and chapbooks. By comparing the Gothic’s collection of unsavoury tropes to morbid anatomy’s collection of diseased organs, the author argues that the Gothic’s prioritisation of fear and gore gives it access to nonnormative bodies, reallocating medical and narrative agency to bodies considered otherwise powerless. Each chapter pairs a trope with a critical medical debate, granting silenced bodies power over their own narratives: the reanimated corpse confronts fears about vitalism; the skeleton exposes fears about pain; the unreliable corpse feeds on fears of dissection; the devil redirects fears about disability; the dangerous narrative manipulates fears of contagion and vaccination.
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1786838508
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
This book debates a crossover between the Gothic and the medical imagination in the Romantic period. It explores the gore and uncertainty typical of medical experimentation, and expands the possibilities of medical theories in a speculative space by a focus on Gothic novels, short stories, poetry, drama and chapbooks. By comparing the Gothic’s collection of unsavoury tropes to morbid anatomy’s collection of diseased organs, the author argues that the Gothic’s prioritisation of fear and gore gives it access to nonnormative bodies, reallocating medical and narrative agency to bodies considered otherwise powerless. Each chapter pairs a trope with a critical medical debate, granting silenced bodies power over their own narratives: the reanimated corpse confronts fears about vitalism; the skeleton exposes fears about pain; the unreliable corpse feeds on fears of dissection; the devil redirects fears about disability; the dangerous narrative manipulates fears of contagion and vaccination.
Romantic Gothic
Author: Angela Wright
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 074869675X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
"Traces the Gothic impulses in proto-Romantic and Romantic British, American and European culture, 1740-1830"--Quatrième de couverture.
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 074869675X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
"Traces the Gothic impulses in proto-Romantic and Romantic British, American and European culture, 1740-1830"--Quatrième de couverture.
American Gothic Art and Architecture in the Age of Romantic Literature
Author: Kerry Dean Carso
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1783161620
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
American Gothic Art and Architecture in the Age of Romantic Literature analyses the influence of British Gothic novels and historical romances on American art and architecture in the Romantic era.
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1783161620
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
American Gothic Art and Architecture in the Age of Romantic Literature analyses the influence of British Gothic novels and historical romances on American art and architecture in the Romantic era.
Gothic Bodies
Author: Steven Bruhm
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812206738
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
An intriguing scholarly investigation, not so much of the ways the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries articulated pain, but of the ways in which pain itself articulated the late eighteenth-century experience. Through analysis of novels, plays, and poems, the author explores the transition from sensibility as a sense of "selflessness" to Romanticism, which puts the self in the foreground as the mediating consciousness. His tightly focused discussion sets a starting point for further critical investigation of the subject.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812206738
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
An intriguing scholarly investigation, not so much of the ways the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries articulated pain, but of the ways in which pain itself articulated the late eighteenth-century experience. Through analysis of novels, plays, and poems, the author explores the transition from sensibility as a sense of "selflessness" to Romanticism, which puts the self in the foreground as the mediating consciousness. His tightly focused discussion sets a starting point for further critical investigation of the subject.
Ann Radcliffe, Romanticism and the Gothic
Author: Dale Townshend
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139867733
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
This book offers unique and fresh perspectives upon the literary productions of one of the most highly remunerated and widely admired authors of the Romantic period, Ann Radcliffe (1764–1823). While drawing upon, consolidating and enriching the critical impulses reflected in Radcliffe scholarship to date, this collection of essays, composed by a range of renowned scholars of the Romantic period, also foregrounds the hitherto neglected aspects of the author's work. Radcliffe's relations to Romantic-era travel writing; the complex political ideologies that lie behind her historiographic endeavours; her poetry and its relation to institutionalised forms of Romanticism; and her literary connections to eighteenth-century women's writing are all examined in this collection. Offering fresh considerations of the well-known Gothic fictions and extending the appreciation of Radcliffe in new critical directions, the collection reappraises Radcliffe's full oeuvre within the wider literary and political contexts of her time.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139867733
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
This book offers unique and fresh perspectives upon the literary productions of one of the most highly remunerated and widely admired authors of the Romantic period, Ann Radcliffe (1764–1823). While drawing upon, consolidating and enriching the critical impulses reflected in Radcliffe scholarship to date, this collection of essays, composed by a range of renowned scholars of the Romantic period, also foregrounds the hitherto neglected aspects of the author's work. Radcliffe's relations to Romantic-era travel writing; the complex political ideologies that lie behind her historiographic endeavours; her poetry and its relation to institutionalised forms of Romanticism; and her literary connections to eighteenth-century women's writing are all examined in this collection. Offering fresh considerations of the well-known Gothic fictions and extending the appreciation of Radcliffe in new critical directions, the collection reappraises Radcliffe's full oeuvre within the wider literary and political contexts of her time.
Art of Darkness
Author:
Publisher: Art of Darkness: Ingenious
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Publisher: Art of Darkness: Ingenious
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
The Gothic Imagination
Author: Gary Richard Thompson
Publisher: [Pullman] : Washington State University Press
ISBN:
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Publisher: [Pullman] : Washington State University Press
ISBN:
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
THE GOTHIC TEXT
Author: Marshall Brown
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804739129
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Combining a new genealogy for the gothic novel with original research into gothic contexts in German idealist thought and romantic psychology, The Gothic Text offers lively readings of British and Continental novels pointing back toward the Enlightenment and ahead toward Freud.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804739129
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Combining a new genealogy for the gothic novel with original research into gothic contexts in German idealist thought and romantic psychology, The Gothic Text offers lively readings of British and Continental novels pointing back toward the Enlightenment and ahead toward Freud.
Kill Creek
Author: Scott Thomas
Publisher: Inkshares
ISBN: 1942645821
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
A psychological horror with a literary twist, Kill Creek delivers elevated prose, while evoking the unnerving, atmospheric terror essential to greats like Peter Straub and Stephen King—a haunting that lingers long after turning the last page.
Publisher: Inkshares
ISBN: 1942645821
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
A psychological horror with a literary twist, Kill Creek delivers elevated prose, while evoking the unnerving, atmospheric terror essential to greats like Peter Straub and Stephen King—a haunting that lingers long after turning the last page.