Rise Of Gothic Novel

List of contents

Part I 1 The Nature of Gothic 2 Past and Present 3 The Sublime and the Odd 4 Everything that Rises Must Converge Part II 1 Godwin and the Gothic of Revolution 2 The Reveries of a Solitary Woman 3 The Chymicall Wedding and the Bourgeois Marriage Part III 1 From Here to Here: Radcliffe’s Plot of Female Development 2 Lewis’s Gothic Revolution 3 ‘A way thus dark and circuitous’: The Revolution Comes Full Circle Part IV 1 The Artist as Goth 2 The Rise of Gothic Criticism

About the author

Maggie Kilgour is an Associate Professor of English at McGill University. She is the author of From Communion to Cannibalism: An Anatomy of Metaphors of Incorporation.

Summary

One of the central images conjured up by the gothic novel is that of a shadowy spectre slowly rising from a mysterious abyss. In The Rise of the Gothic Novel, Maggie Kilgour argues that the ghost of the gothic is now resurrected in the critical methodologies which investigate it for the revelation of buried cultural secrets.

Product details

• Authors: Maggie Kilgour
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.06.1995
• EAN: 9780415081818
• ISBN: 978-0-415-08181-8
• No. of pages: 288
• Weight: 453 g
• Illustrations: Farb., s/w. Abb.
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies