Love, Mystery and Misery: Feeling in Gothic Fiction

by Coral Ann Howells

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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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1472509668

ISBN13:9781472509666

Release Date:May 2014

Publisher:Bloomsbury Academic

Length:210 Pages

Weight:1.06 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Related Subjects

Criticism & Theory Gothic & Romantic History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Movements & Periods

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