Gothic writing, 1750-1820 : a genealogy / Robert Miles.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miles, Robert, 1953-

Series:

Manchester Gothic (Manchester, England).

Manchester Gothic

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--18th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.

Horror tales, English--History and criticism.

Horror tales, English.

Gothic revival (Literature)--Great Britain.

Gothic revival (Literature).

Discourse analysis, Literary.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 244 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2002.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This book investigates discursive structures intermittently recurring through Gothic writing, and provides intertextual readings, exemplifications of contemporaneously understood, discursively inflected, debate. By drawing on the ideas of Michel Foucault to establish a genealogy, it brings Gothic writing in from the margins of 'popular fiction', resituating it at the centre of debate about Romanticism. The book stresses that the intertextual readings form the methodological lynchpin for interpreting Gothic writing as self-aware debate on the character of the subject. Foucault's theory of discourse enables readers to gain an historical purchase on Gothic writing. The book traces the genealogy of a particular strand, the 'Gothic aesthetic', where a chivalric past was idealized at the explicit expense of a classical present. It introduces the reader to the aspects of Gothic in the eighteenth century including its historical development and its placement within the period's concerns with discourse and gender.

Contents:

Introduction: What is Gothic? 1. Historicizing the Gothic 2. The Gothic as discourse 3. The hygienic self: gender in the Gothic 4. Narratives of nurture 5. Narratives of descent 6. Radcliffe and interiority: towards the making of The Mysteries of Udolpho 7. Horrid shadows: the Gothic in Northanger Abbey 8. Avatars of Matthew Lewis's The Monk: Ann Radcliffe's The Italian and Charlotte Dacre's Zofloya: Or, The Moor 9. The poetic tale of terror: Christabel, The Eve of St Agnes and Lamia Conclusion: Lees Kruitzner and Byrons Werner Bibliography Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 Apr 2026).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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OCLC:

1513447276