The GOTHIC TEXT (Paperback)

"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.

General

Imprint:	Stanford University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	November 2009
First published:	November 2009
Authors:	Marshall Brown
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade / Trade
Pages:	306
ISBN-13:	978-0-8047-3913-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General Promotions
LSN:	0-8047-3913-7
Barcode:	9780804739139

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