02779nam 2200601 450 991045311580332120200520144314.00-7083-2573-41-299-20155-5(CKB)2550000001003191(EBL)1123489(OCoLC)828793699(SSID)ssj0001036275(PQKBManifestationID)11575426(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001036275(PQKBWorkID)11041328(PQKB)11295938(MiAaPQ)EBC1889144(MiAaPQ)EBC1123489(Au-PeEL)EBL1889144(CaPaEBR)ebr10654597(CaONFJC)MIL451405(EXLCZ)99255000000100319120151113h20132013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe fantastic and European gothic history, literature and the French revolution /Matthew GibsonCardiff, [Wales] :University of Wales Press,2013.©20131 online resource (256 p.)Gothic Literary StudiesDescription based upon print version of record.0-7083-2572-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Acknowledgements; Introduction; Fantasy and Counter-Revolution in the Theory and Fiction of Charles Nodier; History and Politics in the Fantastic Fiction of Hoffmann,and his Reception in France; The Double Life of the Artist in the Récits fantastiques of Théophile Gautier, and the Rejection of Bourgeois Life under the July Monarchy; 'A Life in Death a Death in Life': the Legitimist Novels of Paul Féval and the Catastrophe of the Second Empire; Paul Féval's Le Chevalier Ténèbre and Le Fanu's 'The Room in the Dragon Volant': the Failures of the Bourbon RestorationRobert Louis Stevenson's 'Olalla', The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and the Refutation of Utilitarian MoralityConclusion; Notes; Short Chronology of Relevant Events; Bibliography; IndexThis iconoclastic book challenges and changes accepted opinions about the Gothic novel, and will introduce the British and American Reader to works hitherto unknown to them, but rivals in quality to the works of writers like Radcliffe, Lewis and Stoker.Gothic literary studies.Gothic revival (Literature)Electronic books.Gothic revival (Literature)809.38729Gibson Matthew924408MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910453115803321The fantastic and European gothic2074437UNINA