The Fantastic and European Gothic : History, Literature and the French Revolution
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Gothic Literary Studies
ISBN-10
0708325726
ISBN-13
9780708325728
Publisher
University of Wales Press
Imprint
University of Wales Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 28th, 2013
Print length
272 Pages
Weight
448 grams
Dimensions
21.80 x 14.50 x 2.40 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
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This iconoclastic book challenges and changes accepted opinions about the Gothic novel, and will introduce the British and American Reader to works hitherto unknown to them, but rivals in quality to the works of writers like Radcliffe, Lewis and Stoker.
This fascinating study examines the rise of fantastic and frénétique literature in Europe during the nineteenth century, introducing readers to lesser-known writers like Paul Féval and Charles Nodier, whose vampires, ghouls, and doppelgängers were every bit as convincing as those of the more famous Bram Stoker and Ann Radcliffe, but whose political motivations were far more serious. Matthew Gibson demonstrates how these writers used the conventions of the Gothic to attack both the French Revolution and the rise of materialism and positivism during the Enlightenment. At the same time, Gibson challenges current understandings of the fantastic and the literature of terror as promulgated by critics like Tzvetan Todorov, David Punter, and Fred Botting.
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