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Sinister histories: Gothic novels and representations of the past, from Horace Walpole to Mary Wollstonecraft
Jonathan Dent
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Description for Sinister histories: Gothic novels and representations of the past, from Horace Walpole to Mary Wollstonecraft
Hardcover. Showing how the Gothic can be read as a complex reaction to Enlightenment methods of historical representation, Sinister histories uncovers hitherto neglected relationships between Gothic texts and prominent works of eighteenth-century history. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 223 x 26. Weight in Grams: 482.
Sinister histories is the first book to offer a detailed exploration of the Gothic's response to Enlightenment historiography. It uncovers hitherto-neglected relationships between fiction and prominent works of eighteenth-century history, locating the Gothic novel in a range of new interdisciplinary contexts. Drawing on ideas from literary studies, history, politics and philosophy, the book demonstrates the extent to which historical works influenced and shaped Gothic fiction from the 1760s to the early nineteenth century. Through a series of detailed readings of texts from The Castle of Otranto (1764) to Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman (1798), this book offers an alternative ... Read more
Sinister histories is the first book to offer a detailed exploration of the Gothic's response to Enlightenment historiography. It uncovers hitherto-neglected relationships between fiction and prominent works of eighteenth-century history, locating the Gothic novel in a range of new interdisciplinary contexts. Drawing on ideas from literary studies, history, politics and philosophy, the book demonstrates the extent to which historical works influenced and shaped Gothic fiction from the 1760s to the early nineteenth century. Through a series of detailed readings of texts from The Castle of Otranto (1764) to Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman (1798), this book offers an alternative ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719095979
SKU
V9780719095979
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About Jonathan Dent
Jonathan Dent is Lecturer in English at De Montfort University -- .
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