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Britain, France and the Gothic, 1764-1820 - The Import of Terror (Paperback) Loot Price: R1,025
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Britain, France and the Gothic, 1764-1820 - The Import of Terror (Paperback): Angela Wright

Britain, France and the Gothic, 1764-1820 - The Import of Terror (Paperback)

Angela Wright

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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Imprint: Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
Release date: October 2015
Authors: Angela Wright
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 978-1-107-56674-3
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century
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LSN: 1-107-56674-6
Barcode: 9781107566743

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