Sinister Histories - Gothic Novels Representations of Past, From Horace Walpole to Mary

Informationen zum Autor Jonathan Dent is Lecturer in English at De Montfort University Klappentext Showing how the Gothic can be read as a complex reaction to Enlightenment methods of historical representation, Sinister histories uncovers hitherto neglected relationships between Gothic texts and prominent works of eighteenth-century history. Zusammenfassung Showing how the Gothic can be read as a complex reaction to Enlightenment methods of historical representation! Sinister histories uncovers hitherto neglected relationships between Gothic texts and prominent works of eighteenth-century history. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroduction: history and the Gothic in the eighteenth century1. Contested pasts: David Hume, Horace Walpole and the emergence of Gothic fiction2. '[B]ringing this deed of darkness to light': representations of the past in Clara Reeve's The Old English Baron (1778)3. 'Entombed alive': Sophia Lee's The Recess (1783-85), the Gothic and history4. '[E]very nerve thrilled with horror': the French Revolution, the past and Ann Radcliffe's The Romance of the Forest (1791)5. 'Things as they are': William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft and the perils of the present ReferencesIndex

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Dent, Dent Jonathan, Dent Jonathan Jonathan
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2019
• EAN: 9781526143518
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-4351-8
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Gothic, LITERARY CRITICISM / Gothic & Romance, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 18th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Romanticism, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600