The Gothic text / Marshall Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Marshall, 1945-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Horror tales--History and criticism.

Horror tales.

Gothic revival (Literature).

Physical Description:

xxiii, 280 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2005.

Summary:

Combining a new genealogy for the gothic novel with original research into gothic contexts in German idealist thought and romantic psychology, "The Gothic Text" offers lively readings of British and Continental novels pointing back toward the Enlightenment and ahead toward Freud.

Contents:

Three theses on Gothic fiction

Fantasia: Kant and the demons of the night

The birth of The castle of Otranto

Excursus: notes on the history of psycho-narration

Ghosts in the flesh

At the limits of Kantian philosophy

Kant's disciples

Kant and the doctors

Meditative interlude

The wild ass's skin

The devil's elixirs

Melmoth the wanderer

Caleb Williams

In defense of cliché: Radcliffe's landscapes

Frankenstein: a child's tale

Postscript: Faust and the Gothic.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-269) and index.

ISBN:

0804739129

OCLC:

54685356