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Gothic writing 1750–1820
A genealogy
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English
Published/Copyright:
2002
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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.
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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Contributor: Robert Miles
Robert Miles is a Reader in English at Sheffield Hallam University
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Front matter
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Contents
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Preface to the second edition
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Introduction
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1 Historicizing the Gothic
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2 The Gothic aesthetic
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3 The hygienic self
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4 Narratives of nurture
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5 Narratives of descent
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6 Radcliffe and inferiority
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7 Horrid shadows
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8 Avatars of Matthew Lewis’s The Monk
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9 The poetic tale of terror
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Conclusion
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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eBook published on:
September 13, 2023
eBook ISBN:
9781526125712
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eBook ISBN:
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Keywords for this book
discourse; discursive tradition; eighteenth century; gender; genealogy; Gothic aesthetic; Gothic writing; intertextual readings; Michel Foucault; popular fiction; Romanticism
Audience(s) for this book
For a non-specialist adult audience
