Angela Wright

Britain, France and the Gothic, 1764 1820

The Import of Terror

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the development of the Gothic through the history of martial, political and literary conflict between Britain and France.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 498g
• ISBN-13: 9781107034068
• ISBN-10: 110703406X
• Artikelnr.: 36955539

Autorenporträt

Angela Wright is Senior Lecturer in Romantic Literature at the University of Sheffield. She is author of Gothic Fiction: A Reader's Guide to Essential Criticism (2007).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The mysterious author Horace Walpole
2. The translator cloak'd: Sophia Lee, Clara Reeve and Charlotte Smith
3. Versions of Gothic and terror
4. The castle under threat: Ann Radcliffe's system and the romance of Europe
5. 'The order disorder'd': French convents and British liberty
Conclusion: afterlives
Works cited.