Britain, France and the Gothic, 1764 1820
Wright, Angela
| Autor: | Wright, Angela |
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| Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 03.04.2014 |
| EAN: | 9781107034068 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 234 |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Verlag: | Cambridge University Press |
| Untertitel: | The Import of Terror |
Produktinformationen "Britain, France and the Gothic, 1764 1820"
In describing his proto-Gothic fiction, The Castle of Otranto (1764), as a translation, Horace Walpole was deliberately playing on national anxieties concerning the importation of war, fashion and literature from France in the aftermath of the Seven Years' War. In the last decade of the eighteenth century, as Britain went to war again with France, this time in the wake of revolution, the continuing connections between Gothic literature and France through the realms of translation, adaptation and unacknowledged borrowing led to strong suspicions of Gothic literature taking on a subversive role in diminishing British patriotism. Angela Wright explores the development of Gothic literature in Britain in the context of the fraught relationship between Britain and France, offering fresh perspectives on the works of Walpole, Radcliffe, 'Monk' Lewis and their contemporaries.
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