Gothic Britain : dark places in the provinces and margins of the British Isles / edited by William Hughes and Ruth Heholt.

Format:

Book

Series:

Gothic literary studies.

Gothic Literary Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English.

National characteristics, British, in literature.

Regionalism in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (179 pages).

Place of Publication:

Cardiff : University of Wales Press, [2018]

Summary:

Gothic Britain is the first collection of essays to consider how the Gothic responds to, and is informed by, the British regional experience. Acknowledging how the so-called United Kingdom has historically been divided on nationalistic lines, the twelve original essays in this volume interrogate the interplay of ideas and generic innovations generated in the spaces between the nominal kingdom and its component nations and, innovatively, within those national spaces. Concentrating upon fictions depicting England, Scotland and Wales specifically, Gothic Britain comprehends the generic possibilities of the urban and the rural, of the historical and the contemporary, of the metropolis and the rural settlement - as well as exploring uniquely the fluid space that is the act of travel itself. Reading the textuality of some two hundred years of national and regional identity, Gothic Britain interrogates how the genre has depicted and questioned the natural and built environments of the island of Britain.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781786832351

1786832356

OCLC:

1039079146