This is the first full-length study to examine the links between
high Romantic literature and what has often been thought of as a
merely popular genre - the Gothic. Michael Gamer offers a sharply
focused analysis of how and why Romantic writers drew on Gothic
conventions whilst, at the same time, denying their influence in
order to claim critical respectability. He shows how the reception
of Gothic literature, including its institutional and commercial
recognition as a form of literature, played a fundamental role in
the development of Romanticism as an ideology. In doing so he
examines the early history of the Romantic movement and its
assumptions about literary value, and the politics of reading,
writing and reception at the end of the eighteenth century. As a
whole the book makes an original contribution to our understanding
of genre, tracing the impact of reception, marketing and audience
on its formation.
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