Jonathan Dent

Sinister histories (eBook, ePUB)

Gothic novels and representations of the past, from Horace Walpole to Mary Wollstonecraft

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Sinister histories is the first book to offer a detailed exploration of the Gothic's response to Enlightenment historiography. It uncovers hitherto-neglected relationships between fiction and prominent works of eighteenth-century history, locating the Gothic novel in a range of new interdisciplinary contexts. Drawing on ideas from literary studies, history, politics and philosophy, the book demonstrates the extent to which historical works influenced and shaped Gothic fiction from the 1760s to the early nineteenth century. Through a series of detailed readings of texts from The Castle of Otranto (1764) to Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman (1798), this book offers an alternative account of the Gothic's development and a sustained revaluation of the creative legacies of the French Revolution.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: NYU Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781784997984
• Artikelnr.: 57471269

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Dent is Lecturer in English at De Montfort University

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: history and the Gothic in the
eighteenth century 1. Contested pasts: David Hume, Horace Walpole and the
emergence of Gothic fiction 2. '[B]ringing this deed of darkness to light':
representations of the past in Clara Reeve's The Old English Baron (1778)
3. 'Entombed alive': Sophia Lee's The Recess (1783-85), the Gothic and
history 4. '[E]very nerve thrilled with horror': the French Revolution, the
past and Ann Radcliffe's The Romance of the Forest (1791) 5. 'Things as
they are': William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft and the perils of the
present References Index