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Sinister histories is the first book to offer a detailed
exploration of the Gothic's response to Enlightenment
historiography. It uncovers hitherto-neglected relationships
between fiction and prominent works of eighteenth-century history,
locating the Gothic novel in a range of new interdisciplinary
contexts. Drawing on ideas from literary studies, history, politics
and philosophy, the book demonstrates the extent to which
historical works influenced and shaped Gothic fiction from the
1760s to the early nineteenth century. Through a series of detailed
readings of texts from The Castle of Otranto (1764) to Maria, or
The Wrongs of Woman (1798), this book offers an alternative account
of the Gothic's development and a sustained revaluation of the
creative legacies of the French Revolution. -- .
Sinister histories is the first book to offer a detailed
exploration of the Gothic's response to Enlightenment
historiography. It uncovers hitherto-neglected relationships
between fiction and prominent works of eighteenth-century history,
locating the Gothic novel in a range of new interdisciplinary
contexts. Drawing on ideas from literary studies, history, politics
and philosophy, the book demonstrates the extent to which
historical works influenced and shaped Gothic fiction from the
1760s to the early nineteenth century. Through a series of detailed
readings of texts from The Castle of Otranto (1764) to Maria, or
The Wrongs of Woman (1798), this book offers an alternative account
of the Gothic's development and a sustained revaluation of the
creative legacies of the French Revolution. -- .
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