Gothic Britain - Dark Places in the Provinces and Margins of the British Isles

Klappentext Gothic Britain is the first collection of essays to consider how the Gothic responds to, and is informed by, the British regional experience. Acknowledging how the so-called United Kingdom has historically been divided on nationalistic lines, the twelve original essays in this volume interrogate the interplay of ideas and generic innovations generated in the spaces between the nominal kingdom and its component nations and, innovatively, within those national spaces. Concentrating upon fictions depicting England, Scotland and Wales specifically, Gothic Britain comprehends the generic possibilities of the urban and the rural, of the historical and the contemporary, of the metropolis and the rural settlement - as well as exploring uniquely the fluid space that is the act of travel itself. Reading the textuality of some two hundred years of national and regional identity, Gothic Britain interrogates how the genre has depicted and questioned the natural and built environments of the island of Britain.

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• Authors: William Hughes, William (Professor of Gothic Studies At Ba Hughes, William Heholt Hughes
• Assisted by: Ruth Heholt (Editor), Heholt Ruth (Editor), William Hughes (Editor), William (Professor of Gothic Studies at Bath Spa University) Hughes (Editor)
• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2018
• EAN: 9781786832337
• ISBN: 978-1-78683-233-7
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Gothic Literary Studies; Gothic Literary Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; British, Britain, Cultural Studies, Gothic, Isles, dark, LITERARY CRITICISM / Gothic & Romance, of, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, places, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, margins, Provinces