The fantastic and European gothic : history, literature and the French revolution / Matthew Gibson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gibson, Matthew, author.

Series:

Gothic literary studies.

Gothic Literary Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gothic revival (Literature).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cardiff, [Wales] : University of Wales Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This iconoclastic book challenges and changes accepted opinions about the Gothic novel, and will introduce the British and American Reader to works hitherto unknown to them, but rivals in quality to the works of writers like Radcliffe, Lewis and Stoker.

Contents:

Acknowledgements; Introduction; Fantasy and Counter-Revolution in the Theory and Fiction of Charles Nodier; History and Politics in the Fantastic Fiction of Hoffmann,and his Reception in France; The Double Life of the Artist in the Récits fantastiques of Théophile Gautier, and the Rejection of Bourgeois Life under the July Monarchy; 'A Life in Death a Death in Life': the Legitimist Novels of Paul Féval and the Catastrophe of the Second Empire; Paul Féval's Le Chevalier Ténèbre and Le Fanu's 'The Room in the Dragon Volant': the Failures of the Bourbon Restoration

Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Olalla', The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and the Refutation of Utilitarian MoralityConclusion; Notes; Short Chronology of Relevant Events; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 13, 2015).

ISBN:

9780708325735

0708325734

9781299201552

1299201555

OCLC:

828793699