Britain, France and the Gothic, 1764–1820: The Import of Terror (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism, Series Number 99) ISBN-13: 9781107034068
Britain, France and the Gothic, 1764–1820: The Import of Terror (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism, Series Number 99) ISBN-13: 9781107034068 | 1 b/w illus., 9781107034068, Angela, Book, Cambridge University Press, Wright | ISBN-10: 110703406X
ISBN-13: 9781107034068
Binding: Hardcover
Author: Wright, Angela
Details: In describing his proto-Gothic fiction, The Castle of Otranto (1764), as a translation, Horace Walpole was deliberately playing on national anxieties concerning the importation of war, fashion and literature from France in the aftermath of the Seven Years War. In the last decade of the eighteenth century, as Britain went to war again with France, this time in the wake of revolution, the continuing connections between Gothic literature and France through the realms of translation, adaptation and unacknowledged borrowing led to strong suspicions of Gothic literature taking on a subversive role in diminishing British patriotism. Angela Wright explores the development of Gothic literature in Britain in the context of the fraught relationship between Britain and France, offering fresh perspectives on the works of Walpole, Radcliffe, Monk Lewis and their contemporaries.
Release Date: 10-06-2013
Package Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.8 inches
Languages: English
Part Number: 1 b/w illus.
Edition: Illustrated
Features:
- Used Book in Good Condition
Format: Illustrated
Number Of Pages: 234
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