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3631611358
ISBN-13
9783631611357
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New
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Peter Lang AG
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Peter Lang AG
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DE
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GB
Publication Date
Apr 13th, 2011
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296 Pages
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496 grams
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15.60 x 21.70 x 2.20 cms
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Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Literary studies: from c 1900 -
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Failed Rites of Passage in Early Gothic Fiction
This study applies Victor Turner’s theory of liminality to an examination of early British Gothic fiction and its cultural context. Contrary to the widespread belief that the Gothic is escapist in nature, a close reading of novels such as William Godwin’s Caleb Williams (1794), Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) or Charles Maturin’s Melmoth the Wanderer (1820) reveals that they actively engage with socio-political and educational debates of the time. Using the licence of fantastic literature, the Gothic sets up social experiments in which young, inexperienced protagonists have to face a variety of institutions. Under what circumstances are they willing to submit to these social orders? Why are rites of passage often bound to fail? These are questions consistently raised in this genre and explored in this study with reference to a wide range of political, legal, and educational treatises of the eighteenth century.
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