Gothic writing 1750–1820: A genealogyManchester University Press, 1 jun 2017 - 256 pagina's Now available again in paperback, this provocative study by Robert Miles uses the tools of modern literary theory and criticism to analyse this very distinctive body of texts. Miles introduces the reader to contexts of Gothic in the eigteenth century including its historical development and its placement within the period's concerns with discourse and gender. By using texts ranging from sensational novels such as The Monk and The Mysteries of Udolpho, poetic variations on Gothic by Coleridge, Shelley and Keats, to satirical works on the theme by Jane Austen, Miles presents an intriguing overview of Gothic literature. By drawing extensively on the ideas of Michel Foucault to establish a genealogy he brings Gothic writing in from the margins of 'popular fiction', resituating it at the centre of debate about Romanticism. |
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the Gothic as discourse | 28 |
gender in the Gothic | 46 |
Narratives of nurture | 76 |
Narratives of descent | 97 |
towards the making of The Mysteries of Udolpho | 115 |
the Gothic in Northanger Abbey | 133 |
Ann Radcliffes The Italian and Charlotte Dacres Zojloya Or The Moor | 149 |
Christabel The Eve of St Agnes and Lamia | 176 |
Lees Kruitzner and Byrons Werner | 199 |
Notes | 210 |
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