LEADER 04421nam 2200745Ia 450 001 9910454060003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-07027-4 010 $a9786612070273 010 $a0-226-89903-9 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226899039 035 $a(CKB)1000000000724297 035 $a(EBL)432313 035 $a(OCoLC)368727649 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000105847 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11138442 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000105847 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10102188 035 $a(PQKB)11502963 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC432313 035 $a(DE-B1597)535703 035 $a(OCoLC)1135570710 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226899039 035 $a(PPN)234971215 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL432313 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10286148 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL207027 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000724297 100 $a19940728d1995 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aArt of darkness$b[electronic resource] $ea poetics of Gothic /$fAnne Williams 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d1995 215 $a1 online resource (325 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-89907-1 311 $a0-226-89906-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 285-300) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tCONTENTS -- $tACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- $tINTRODUCTION. Gothic Fiction's Family Romances -- $tPart One. Riding Nightmares; or, What's Novel about Gothic? -- $tPart Two. Reading Nightmeres; or, The Two Gothic Traditions -- $tEPILOGUE. The Mysteries of Enlightenment; or Dr. Freud's Gothic Novel -- $tAPPENDIX A. Inner and Outer Spaced The Alien Trilogy -- $tAPPENDIX B. Gothic Families -- $tAPPENDIX C. The Female Plot of Ghotic Fiction -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aArt of Darkness is an ambitious attempt to describe the principles governing Gothic literature. Ranging across five centuries of fiction, drama, and verse-including tales as diverse as Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto, Shelley's Frankenstein, Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and Freud's The Mysteries of Enlightenment-Anne Williams proposes three new premises: that Gothic is "poetic," not novelistic, in nature; that there are two parallel Gothic traditions, Male and Female; and that the Gothic and the Romantic represent a single literary tradition. Building on the psychoanalytic and feminist theory of Julia Kristeva, Williams argues that Gothic conventions such as the haunted castle and the family curse signify the fall of the patriarchal family; Gothic is therefore "poetic" in Kristeva's sense because it reveals those "others" most often identified with the female. Williams identifies distinct Male and Female Gothic traditions: In the Male plot, the protagonist faces a cruel, violent, and supernatural world, without hope of salvation. The Female plot, by contrast, asserts the power of the mind to comprehend a world which, though mysterious, is ultimately sensible. By showing how Coleridge and Keats used both Male and Female Gothic, Williams challenges accepted notions about gender and authorship among the Romantics. Lucidly and gracefully written, Art of Darkness alters our understanding of the Gothic tradition, of Romanticism, and of the relations between gender and genre in literary history. 606 $aEnglish literature$y18th century$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc 606 $aEnglish literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc 606 $aHorror tales, English$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc 606 $aGothic revival (Literature)$zGreat Britain 606 $aRomanticism$zGreat Britain 606 $aPoetics 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc. 615 0$aHorror tales, English$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc. 615 0$aGothic revival (Literature) 615 0$aRomanticism 615 0$aPoetics. 676 $a823/.0872909 700 $aWilliams$b Anne$f1947-$0990071 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910454060003321 996 $aArt of darkness$92264595 997 $aUNINA