"Romantic gothic fiction is not exciting. Gothic novels are not
ghost stories. Gothic novels are not women's writing."
Opening with these three theses, "The Gothic Text" undertakes a
fresh approach to a much-studied mode. Marshall Brown combines the
teleological approach to literary history developed in his
"Preromanticism" with a European perspective on the one truly
international literary form of its era. New insights into literary
history and the history of ideas provide a framework for innovative
close readings--of Horace Walpole's "The Castle of Otranto," Ann
Radcliffe's "The Italian," and Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein," among
others--that approach classics of the genre from unusual angles.
The book also provides a thoroughly researched account of German
romantic psychology as it developed out of Kant's idealist
philosophy into a gothic sensibility. Accessibly written and argued
in careful, lively detail, "The Gothic Text" gives many new
impulses to the study of romanticism, nineteenth-century fiction,
and the origins of psychoanalysis.
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