Love, mystery and misery : feeling in Gothic fiction
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Love, mystery and misery : feeling in Gothic fiction
（Bloomsbury academic collections, . English literary criticism ; 18th-19th centuries）
Bloomsbury, 2013
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Reprint. Originally published: London : Athlone Press, 1995
ISBN for sub series "English literary criticism": 9781472535412
ISBN for sub series "English literary criticism -- 18th-19th centuries": 9781472536143
Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
The current Gothic revival in literature and film encourages us to look again to the earliest Gothic novels written beween 1790 and 1820, when Gothic was the most popular kind of fiction in England. Dr. Howells proposes a radical reassessment of these novels to emphasize their importance as experiments in imaginative writing. Her object, the study of feeling, is central to Gothic, for its spell consists in the feelings it arouses and exercises. As pseudo-historical fantasy, Gothic fiction embodies contemporary neuroses, especially sexual fears and repressions, which run right through it and are basic to its conventions. This study traces the effort to articulate these disconcerting emotions in symbol, incident, landscape and architecture. The chronological design suggests developments in Gothic, from the initial explorations of Mrs Radcliffe and M.G. Lewis, through the Minerva Press novelists and Jane Austen's "Northanger Abbey", to new directions taken by C.R. Maturin in "Melmoth the Wanderer" and later by Charlotte Bronte whose "Jane Eyre", arguably the finest of Gothic novels, places the earlier experiments in perspective.
目次
- Preface Introduction I Gothic Themes, Values, Techniques II Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho III M. G. Lewis, The Monk IV Minerva Press Fiction, 1796-1819: Regina Maria Roche, The Children of the Abbey and Mary-Anne Radcliffe, Manfrone
- or The One-Handed Monk V Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey VI C. R. Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer VII. Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre Selective List of Gothic Novels Notes Index
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