Contesting the Gothic: Fiction, Genre and Cultural Conflict, 1764-1832

(Part of the Cambridge Studies in Romanticism Series)

by James Watt

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James Watt's historically grounded account of Gothic fiction, first published in 1999, takes issue with received accounts of the genre as a stable and continuous tradition. Charting its vicissitudes from Walpole to Scott, Watt shows the Gothic to have been a heterogeneous body of fiction, characterized at times by antagonistic relations between various writers or works. Central to his argument about these works' writing and reception is a nuanced...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0521024811

ISBN13:9780521024815

Release Date:March 2006

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:220 Pages

Weight:0.72 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Related Subjects

Criticism & Theory English Literature Genre Fiction Gothic & Romantic History & Criticism Horror Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature Literature & Fiction Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Movements & Periods

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