European Gothic : a spirited exchange, 1760-1960 / edited by Avril Horner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Horner, Avril, 1947-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

European fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

European fiction.

European fiction--History and criticism.

Gothic revival (Literature)--Europe.

Gothic revival (Literature).

Europe.

Physical Description:

xii, 260 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the U.S.A. by Palgrave, 2002.

Summary:

"European Gothic: A Spirited Exchange 1760-1960" sets out to challenge the tyranny of the Anglo-American narratives that have dominated critical histories of the Gothic so far. It argues that the Gothic novel did not simply derive from "The Castle of Otranto," but that it has been forged in the crucible of translation. Focussing on Gothic writing in English, French, German, Russian and Spanish, the collection charts a rich process of cross-fertilization and, in particular, examines the importance of Anglo-French exchanges in the development of the Gothic novel within Europe and, subsequently, the US.

Contents:

1 Translation in distress: cultural misappropriation and the construction of the Gothic / Terry Hale 17

2 European disruptions of the idealized woman: Matthew Lewis's The Monk and the Marquis de Sade's La Nouvelle Justine / Angela Wright 39

3 Diderot and Maturin: Enlightenment, automata, and the theatre of terror / Victor Sage 55

4 Verging on the Gothic: Melmoth's journey to France / Catherine Lanone 71

5 Europhobia: the Catholic other in Horace Walpole and Charles Maturin / Robert Miles 84

6 European Gothic and nineteenth-century Russian literature / Neil Cornwell 104

7 The robbers and the police: British romantic drama and the Gothic treacheries of Coleridge's Remorse / Peter Mortensen 128

8 Translating Mary Shelly's Valperga into English: historical romance, biography or Gothic fiction? / John Williams 147

9 'Hallelujah to your dying screams of torture': representations of ritual violence in English and Spanish romanticism / Joan Curbet 161

10 Potocki's Gothic Arabesque: embedded narrative and the treatment of boundaries in The Manuscript Found in Saragossa (1797-1815) / Ahlam Alaki 183

11 The Gothic crosses the Channel: abjection and revelation in Le Fantome de l'Opera / Jerrold E. Hogle 204

12 'A detour of filthiness': French fiction and Djuna Barnes's Nightwood / Avril Horner 230.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

071906063X

0719060648

OCLC:

50123507