The psychopathology of the Gothic romance : perversion, neuroses and psychosis in early works of the genre / Ed Cameron.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cameron, Ed, 1966-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English--History and criticism.

Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English.

Psychology, Pathological, in literature.

Deviant behavior in literature.

Neuroses in literature.

Psychoses in literature.

Psychoanalysis and literature.

Physical Description:

vii, 207 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., Publishers, [2010]

Summary:

"This book uses clinical psychoanalytic theory to illustrate how early British Gothic fiction reveals undercurrents of psychopathological behavior. Chapters consider the division of the Gothic novel; how early British Gothic romance parallels Freud's notion; the genre's origins in Walpole's The Castle of Otranto; sexual differentiation; Ann Radcliffe; Matthew Lewis; and the confusion between self and other"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: the gothic on the couch

The two-headed gothic monster

Retrospective fantasy and the uncanny structure of gothic romance

Horace Walpole and the perverse origins of the gothic romance

Sexual difference and the gothic sublime

Ann Radcliffe and the gothic terror of hysteria

Matthew Lewis and the gothic horror of obsessional neurosis

Conclusion: James Hogg, the psychotic doppelgänger, and the foreclosure of the gothic.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780786447718

0786447710

OCLC:

635492233