History of the Gothic - Gothic Literature 1764-1824

Klappentext This volume! which weds a socio-historical and intellectual approach to classic British Gothic literature! is a perfect introduction to the genre for the student and lay reader alike. Works by gothic authors such as Horace Walpole! Matthew Lewis! Ann Radcliffe! William Godwin! and Mary Shelley! as well as traditions like the Female Gothic! are examined against the backdrop of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British political and cultural developments! culminating in a detailed and accessible exploration of the gothic's major motifs and themes. Zusammenfassung Offers an introduction to classic British Gothic literature. This book examines works by Gothic authors such as Horace Walpole! Matthew Lewis! Ann Radcliffe! William Godwin and Mary Shelley against the backdrop of eighteenth-and-nineteenth-century British social and political history.

Product details

• Authors: Carol Margaret Davidson, Carol Davison, Carol Margaret Davison, Davison Carol
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 15.11.2009, delayed
• EAN: 9780708320099
• ISBN: 978-0-7083-2009-9
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: University of Wales Press - Go; Gothic Literary Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Literature, History, Gothic, of, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form, 1824, 1764