Sinister Histories: Gothic Novels and Representations of the Past, from Horace Walpole to Mary Wollstonecraft
Author:   Jonathan Dent ,  Rebecca Mortimer
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
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9780719095979


Pages:   288
Publication Date:   21 June 2016
Format:   Hardback
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Sinister Histories: Gothic Novels and Representations of the Past, from Horace Walpole to Mary Wollstonecraft


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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 account of the Gothic's development and a sustained revaluation of the creative legacies of the French Revolution. -- .

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Author:   Jonathan Dent ,  Rebecca Mortimer
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
Imprint:   Manchester University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.481kg
ISBN:  

9780719095979


ISBN 10:   0719095972
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   21 June 2016
Audience:   General/trade ,  General ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: history and the Gothic in the eighteenth century 1. Contested pasts: David Hume, Horace Walpole and the emergence of Gothic fiction 2. '[B]ringing this deed of darkness to light': representations of the past in Clara Reeve's The Old English Baron (1778) 3. 'Entombed alive': Sophia Lee's The Recess (1783-85), the Gothic and history 4. '[E]very nerve thrilled with horror': the French Revolution, the past and Ann Radcliffe's The Romance of the Forest (1791) 5. 'Things as they are': William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft and the perils of the present References Index -- .

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