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Author: Elizabeth R. Napier Publisher: ISBN: Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 192
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The English Gothic novel has recently attracted renewed attention by modern critics who have argued its importance as a mirror of late 18th-century discomfort with the political, psychological, and sexual climate of the times. Elizabeth Napier's work challenges these views, suggesting that the instability of the form may be more successfully addressed through a study of generic structure and its relationship to the designs of the fictional works that preceded it. The first full-length study of narrative conventions in the Gothic, The Failure of Gothic examines the disjunctive form of much Gothic fiction, and its repeated, troubling failure to deal conclusively with both the ethical and the formal issues it raises.
Author: Elizabeth R. Napier Publisher: ISBN: Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 192
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The English Gothic novel has recently attracted renewed attention by modern critics who have argued its importance as a mirror of late 18th-century discomfort with the political, psychological, and sexual climate of the times. Elizabeth Napier's work challenges these views, suggesting that the instability of the form may be more successfully addressed through a study of generic structure and its relationship to the designs of the fictional works that preceded it. The first full-length study of narrative conventions in the Gothic, The Failure of Gothic examines the disjunctive form of much Gothic fiction, and its repeated, troubling failure to deal conclusively with both the ethical and the formal issues it raises.
Author: Elizabeth R. Napier Publisher: University of Toronto Press ISBN: 1442641983 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 281
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Falling into Matter examines the complex role of the body in the development of the English novel in the eighteenth century. Elizabeth R. Napier argues that despite an increasing emphasis on the need to present ideas in corporeal terms, early fiction writers continued to register spiritual and moral reservations about the centrality of the body to human and imaginative experience. Drawing on six works of early English fiction -- Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, Samuel Richardson's Clarissa, Henry Fielding's Tom Jones, Elizabeth Inchbald's A Simple Story, and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein - Napier examines how authors grappled with technical and philosophical issues of the body, questioning its capacity for moral action, its relationship to individual freedom and dignity, and its role in the creation of art. Falling into Matter charts the course of the early novel as its authors engaged formally, stylistically, and thematically with the increasingly insistent role of the body in the new genre.
Author: Dr Ana de Freitas Boe Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. ISBN: 1472430190 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 241
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Understanding heteronormativity is imperative for understanding the culture of the eighteenth century writ large, as well as the imaginaries of sex and sexuality that it bequeaths to the present. This collection foregrounds British, European, and transatlantic heteronormativities to pose vital, if vexing, questions about the degree of continuity subsisting between heteronormativities past and present, questions compounded by the aura of transhistoricity lying at the heart of heteronormativity as an ideology.
Author: Matthew Brennan Publisher: Camden House (NY) ISBN: 9781571131041 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 169
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Gothic literature and art often include dreamlike states, or resemble or represent dreams. Drawing on Carl Jung's ideas of dream interpretation, as well as Hartmann's biological research on nightmares and Victor Turner's anthropological work on the liminal, this work offers close readings of poems by Coleridge, Wordsworth, Byron and Keats, and novels such as Frankenstein and Dracula, as well as analyses of paintings by Turner and Fuseli, to argue that the works' characters, plots and images represent failure of individuation: psychic disintegration in which the Self not only falls short of a centred consciousness, but also suffers the ego's absorption into the unconscious. Although recent studies of the genre have probed behind the traditional Gothic conventions to shed light on their psychological meanings, most have limited themselves to a single author or genre (usually fiction) and to the theories of Freud or Lacan. In contrast, this book emphasizes Jung's theory of individuation, and how the failure to achieve wholeness can lead to self-destruction.
Author: Rictor Norton Publisher: A&C Black ISBN: 9780826485854 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 788
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This is an anthology of Gothic Literature, set within the context of contemporary criticism and readers' responses. It includes selections from the major practitioners and many of their followers, as well as contemporary reviews, private letters and diaries, chapbooks, and contemporary anecdotes about dramatic performances and the design of theatre sets. The selections provide representative samples of the major genres - historical gothic, the Radcliffe school of terror, the Lewis school of horror, tragic melodrama, comic parody, supernatural poetry and ballads, book reviews and literary criticism and anti-Gothic polemic.
Author: David Punter Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 1444354930 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 578
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The thoroughly expanded and updated New Companion to the Gothic, provides a series of stimulating insights into Gothic writing, its history and genealogy. The addition of 12 new essays and a section on ‘Global Gothic’ reflects the direction Gothic criticism has taken over the last decade. Many of the original essays have been revised to reflect current debates Offers comprehensive coverage of criticism of the Gothic and of the various theoretical approaches it has inspired and spawned Features important and original essays by leading scholars in the field The editor is widely recognized as the founder of modern criticism of the Gothic
Author: Albert J. Rivero Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108418929 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 259
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Provides twenty-first century readers with a new, comprehensive and suggestive account of the sentimental novel in the eighteenth century.
Author: Hilary Grimes Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. ISBN: 1409427218 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 197
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Examining the automatic writing of the spiritualist séances, discursive technologies like the telegraph and the photograph, various genres and late nineteenth-century mental science, this book shows the failure of writers' attempts to use technology as a way of translating the supernatural at the fin de siècle. Hilary Grimes shows that both new technology and explorations into the ghostly aspects of the mind made agency problematic. When notions of agency are suspended, Grimes argues, authorship itself becomes uncanny. Grimes's study is distinct in both recognizing and crossing strict boundaries to suggest that Gothic literature itself resists categorization, not only between literary periods, but also between genres. Treating a wide range of authors - Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Conan Doyle, George Du Maurier, Vernon Lee, Mary Louisa Molesworth, Sarah Grand, and George Paston - Grimes shows how fin-de-siècle works negotiate themes associated with the Victorian and Modernist periods such as psychical research, mass marketing, and new technologies. With particular attention to texts that are not placed within the Gothic genre, but which nevertheless conceal Gothic themes, The Late Victorian Gothic demonstrates that the end of the nineteenth century produced a Gothicism specific to the period.
Author: Claudia L. Johnson Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 0226401790 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 256
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In the wake of the French Revolution, Edmund Burke argued that civil order depended upon nurturing the sensibility of men—upon the masculine cultivation of traditionally feminine qualities such as sentiment, tenderness, veneration, awe, gratitude, and even prejudice. Writers as diverse as Sterne, Goldsmith, Burke, and Rousseau were politically motivated to represent authority figures as men of feeling, but denied women comparable authority by representing their feelings as inferior, pathological, or criminal. Focusing on Mary Wollstonecraft, Ann Radcliffe, Frances Burney, and Jane Austen, whose popular works culminate and assail this tradition, Claudia L. Johnson examines the legacy male sentimentality left for women of various political persuasions. Demonstrating the interrelationships among politics, gender, and feeling in the fiction of this period, Johnson provides detailed readings of Wollstonecraft, Radcliffe, and Burney, and treats the qualities that were once thought to mar their work—grotesqueness, strain, and excess—as indices of ideological conflict and as strategies of representation during a period of profound political conflict. She maintains that the reactionary reassertion of male sentimentality as a political duty displaced customary gender roles, rendering women, in Wollstonecraft's words, "equivocal beings."
Author: Elizabeth R. Napier
Author: Elizabeth R. Napier
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