Mary Robinson and the Gothic / Jerrold E. Hogle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hogle, Jerrold E., author.

Series:

Cambridge elements 2634-8721.

Cambridge elements. Elements in the gothic, 2634-8721

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Robinson, Mary, 1758-1800--Criticism and interpretation.

Robinson, Mary.

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

Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (67 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

System Details:

Mode of Access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Celebrated as an actress on the London stage (1776-80) and notorious as the mistress of the Prince of Wales (1779-80), Mary Darby Robinson had to write to support herself from the mid-1780s until her death in 1800. She mastered a wide range of styles, published prolifically, and became the poetry editor of the Morning Post. As her writing developed across the 1790s, she increasingly used the motifs of Gothic fiction and drama descended from Horace Walpole's Castle of Otranto (1764). These came to pervade her late novels and poems so much that she even wrote her autobiography as a Gothic romance. She also deployed them to critique the ideologies of male dominance and the forms of writing in which they appeared. This progression culminated in her final collection of verses, Lyrical Tales (1800), where she Gothically exposes the conflicted underpinnings in the now-famous Lyrical Ballads (1798) by Wordsworth and Coleridge.

Contents:

A Gothic life

The un-grounded grounds of the Walpolean Gothic

The argument

The Gothic image of the other

The Gothic mind

The Gothic performance of gender

The Gothic in Lyrical tales.

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ISBN:

9781009160889 (ebook)

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