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Wright Angela <1969 May 14-> |
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Britain, France and the Gothic, 1764-1820 : the import of terror / / Angela Wright, University of Sheffield [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013 |
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1-139-89152-9 |
1-107-06566-6 |
1-107-05495-8 |
1-107-05835-X |
1-107-05603-9 |
1-107-05960-7 |
1-139-52436-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xii, 214 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; ; 99 |
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Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English - History and criticism |
Romanticism - Great Britain |
Romanticism - France |
Comparative literature - English and French |
Comparative literature - French and English |
Gothic revival (Literature) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 12 Jan 2016). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In describing his proto-Gothic fiction, The Castle of Otranto (1764), as a translation, Horace Walpole was deliberately playing on national anxieties concerning the importation of war, fashion and literature from France in the aftermath of the Seven Years' War. In the last decade of the eighteenth century, as Britain went to war again with France, this time in the wake of revolution, the continuing connections between Gothic literature and France through the realms of translation, adaptation and unacknowledged borrowing led to strong suspicions of Gothic literature taking on a subversive role in diminishing British patriotism. Angela Wright explores the development of Gothic literature |
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in Britain in the context of the fraught relationship between Britain and France, offering fresh perspectives on the works of Walpole, Radcliffe, 'Monk' Lewis and their contemporaries. |
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