Visions of Evil : Origins of Violence in the English Gothic Novel
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
European University Studies
ISBN-10
3631316968
ISBN-13
9783631316962
Publisher
Peter Lang GmbH
Imprint
Peter Lang GmbH
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 1st, 1997
Print length
340 Pages
Weight
428 grams
Dimensions
21.10 x 14.90 x 1.90 cms
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In this thesis, which strives to re-focus the view on a seminal era of English literature, four major Gothic Novels are subjected to a thorough textual analysis. The central hypothesis is that the superior Gothic Novels are finely honed psychological studies which concentrate on the moral deterioration of individual characters. This deterioration leads to different forms of destructive social interaction: it causes psychotic behaviour patterns, violence directed against oneself, and sexual abuse of others. The Gothicists show persons who in an austere patriarchal society develop strategies to satisfytheir personal, essentially anti-social needs. The major Gothic Novels unmask bourgeois society as a system which creates the frame conditions for indulgence of public and private violence, and thus fails to fulfil its original task of providing shelter for the individual.
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