Britain, France and the Gothic, 1764–1820: The Import of Terror (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism, Series Number 99) ISBN-13: 9781107034068

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