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Britain, France and the Gothic, 1764-1820 - The Import of Terror (Hardcover, New)
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Britain, France and the Gothic, 1764-1820 - The Import of Terror (Hardcover, New)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
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In describing his proto-Gothic fiction, The Castle of Otranto
(1764), as a translation, Horace Walpole was deliberately playing
on national anxieties concerning the importation of war, fashion
and literature from France in the aftermath of the Seven Years'
War. In the last decade of the eighteenth century, as Britain went
to war again with France, this time in the wake of revolution, the
continuing connections between Gothic literature and France through
the realms of translation, adaptation and unacknowledged borrowing
led to strong suspicions of Gothic literature taking on a
subversive role in diminishing British patriotism. Angela Wright
explores the development of Gothic literature in Britain in the
context of the fraught relationship between Britain and France,
offering fresh perspectives on the works of Walpole, Radcliffe,
'Monk' Lewis and their contemporaries.
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