Celebrated as an actress on the London stage (1776–80) and
notorious as the mistress of the Prince of Wales (1779–80), Mary
Darby Robinson had to write to support herself from the mid–1780s
until her death in 1800. She mastered a wide range of styles,
published prolifically, and became the poetry editor of the Morning
Post. As her writing developed across the 1790s, she increasingly
used the motifs of Gothic fiction and drama descended from Horace
Walpole's Castle of Otranto (1764). These came to pervade her late
novels and poems so much that she even wrote her autobiography as a
Gothic romance. She also deployed them to critique the ideologies
of male dominance and the forms of writing in which they appeared.
This progression culminated in her final collection of verses,
Lyrical Tales (1800), where she Gothically exposes the conflicted
underpinnings in the now-famous Lyrical Ballads (1798) by
Wordsworth and Coleridge.
General
Imprint: |
Cambridge UniversityPress
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Elements in the Gothic |
Release date: |
April 2023 |
Authors: |
Jerrold E. Hogle
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Pages: |
75 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-00-916087-2 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-00-916087-7 |
Barcode: |
9781009160872 |
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