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A Geography of Victorian Gothic Fiction
Mapping History's Nightmares
Taschenbuch von Robert Mighall
Sprache: Englisch

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This is the first major full-length study of Victorian Gothic fiction. Combining original readings of familiar texts with a rich store of historical sources, A Geography of Victorian Gothic Fiction is an historicist survey of nineteenth-century Gothic writing--from Dickens to Stoker, Wilkie
Collins to Conan Doyle, through European travelogues, sexological textbooks, ecclesiastic histories and pamphlets on the perils of self-abuse. Critics have thus far tended to concentrate on specific angles of Gothic writing (gender or race), or the belief that the Gothic 'returned' at the so-called
fin de siecle. Robert Mighall, by contrast, demonstrates how the Gothic mode was active throughout the Victorian period, and provides historical explanations for its development from late eighteenth century, through the 'Urban Gothic' fictions of the mid-Victorian period, the 'Suburban Gothic' of
the Sensation vogue, through to the somatic horrors of Stevenson, Machen, Stoker, and Doyle at the century's close. Mighall challenges the psychological approach to Gothic fiction which currently prevails, demonstrating the importance of geographical, historical, and discursive factors that have
been largely neglected by critics, and employing a variety of original sources to demonstrate the contexts of Gothic fiction and explain its development in the Victorian period.
This is the first major full-length study of Victorian Gothic fiction. Combining original readings of familiar texts with a rich store of historical sources, A Geography of Victorian Gothic Fiction is an historicist survey of nineteenth-century Gothic writing--from Dickens to Stoker, Wilkie
Collins to Conan Doyle, through European travelogues, sexological textbooks, ecclesiastic histories and pamphlets on the perils of self-abuse. Critics have thus far tended to concentrate on specific angles of Gothic writing (gender or race), or the belief that the Gothic 'returned' at the so-called
fin de siecle. Robert Mighall, by contrast, demonstrates how the Gothic mode was active throughout the Victorian period, and provides historical explanations for its development from late eighteenth century, through the 'Urban Gothic' fictions of the mid-Victorian period, the 'Suburban Gothic' of
the Sensation vogue, through to the somatic horrors of Stevenson, Machen, Stoker, and Doyle at the century's close. Mighall challenges the psychological approach to Gothic fiction which currently prevails, demonstrating the importance of geographical, historical, and discursive factors that have
been largely neglected by critics, and employing a variety of original sources to demonstrate the contexts of Gothic fiction and explain its development in the Victorian period.
Über den Autor
Robert Mighall is an Honorary Research Fellow in English Literature at University College London and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He also held the position of Editor of Penguin Classics. His publications include an edited selection of Oscar Wilde's poetry for Everyman and Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray for Penguin Classics. He currently works as a consultant on corporate identity and communications at Citigate Lloyd Northover.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Introduction: Outside in: Gothic criticism and the pull into interiority

  • 1: History as nightmare

  • 2: From Udolpho to Spitalfields: mapping Gothic London

  • 3: Haunted houses I and II

  • 4: Atavism: a Darwinian nightmare

  • 5: Unspeakable vices: moral monstrosity and representation

  • 6: Making a case: vampirism, sexuality, and interpretation

  • Postscript: From landscape to dreamscape: redrawing the Gothic map

  • Bibliography

  • Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
Fachbereich: Geisteswissenschaften allgemein
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 340
ISBN-13: 9780199262182
ISBN-10: 0199262187
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Mighall, Robert
Hersteller: OUP Oxford
Maße: 216 x 140 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Robert Mighall
Erscheinungsdatum: 20.03.2003
Gewicht: 0,48 kg
preigu-id: 108634108
Über den Autor
Robert Mighall is an Honorary Research Fellow in English Literature at University College London and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He also held the position of Editor of Penguin Classics. His publications include an edited selection of Oscar Wilde's poetry for Everyman and Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray for Penguin Classics. He currently works as a consultant on corporate identity and communications at Citigate Lloyd Northover.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Introduction: Outside in: Gothic criticism and the pull into interiority

  • 1: History as nightmare

  • 2: From Udolpho to Spitalfields: mapping Gothic London

  • 3: Haunted houses I and II

  • 4: Atavism: a Darwinian nightmare

  • 5: Unspeakable vices: moral monstrosity and representation

  • 6: Making a case: vampirism, sexuality, and interpretation

  • Postscript: From landscape to dreamscape: redrawing the Gothic map

  • Bibliography

  • Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
Fachbereich: Geisteswissenschaften allgemein
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 340
ISBN-13: 9780199262182
ISBN-10: 0199262187
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Mighall, Robert
Hersteller: OUP Oxford
Maße: 216 x 140 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Robert Mighall
Erscheinungsdatum: 20.03.2003
Gewicht: 0,48 kg
preigu-id: 108634108
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