Jonathan Dent

Sinister histories (eBook, ePUB)

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

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Showing how the Gothic can be read as a complex reaction to Enlightenment methods of historical representation, Sinister histories uncovers hitherto neglected relationships between Gothic texts and prominent works of eighteenth-century history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pittsburgh 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