THE GOTHIC TEXT
Stanford University Press · Hardcover · January 3, 2005
Romantic gothic fiction is not exciting.
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- Who it’s for
- Close readings and German romantic psychology reshape the literary history of gothic fiction.
- Genres
- Gothic & Romance Lit Crit, German Literary Criticism, 18th Century Literature
- Published
- Stanford University Press, January 3, 2005
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Romantic gothic fiction is not exciting. Gothic novels are not ghost stories. Gothic novels are not women's writing. Opening with these three theses, The Gothic Text undertakes a fresh approach to a much-studied mode. Marshall Brown combines the teleological approach to literary history developed in his Preromanticism with a European perspective on the one truly international literary form of its era.
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New insights into literary history and the history of ideas provide a framework for innovative close readings—of Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto, Ann Radcliffe's The Italian, and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, among others—that approach classics of the genre from unusual angles. The book also provides a thoroughly researched account of German romantic psychology as it developed out of Kant's idealist philosophy into a gothic sensibility. Accessibly written and argued in careful, lively detail, The Gothic Text gives many new impulses to the study of romanticism, nineteenth-century fiction, and the origins of psychoanalysis.
Gothic Literary History
Close readings and German romantic psychology reshape the literary history of gothic fiction.
Come here for
- Close readings of Walpole, Radcliffe, Shelley, and other gothic classics
- A European perspective on gothic fiction’s literary history
Expect
- An account of German romantic psychology developing from Kantian idealist philosophy
- Attention to romanticism, nineteenth-century fiction, and the origins of psychoanalysis
Where it sits
| Gothic & Romance Lit Crit | 90% |
|---|---|
| 18th Century Literature | 35% |
| German Literary Criticism | 28% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Gothic & Romance Lit Crit
- Authors
- Marshall Brown
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Published
- January 3, 2005
- Format
- Hardcover
- Reading lane
- Gothic & Romance Lit Crit