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The Fantastic and European Gothic

History, Literature and the French Revolution. Gothic Literary Studies

By (author) Matthew Gibson
Format: Hardback
Publisher: University of Wales Press, Wales, United Kingdom
Published: 28th Feb 2013
Dimensions: w 138mm h 216mm d 25mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN-10: 0708325726
ISBN-13: 9780708325728
Barcode No: 9780708325728
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This book examines the rise of Fantastic literature on the continent in the nineteenth century, the development of a European Gothic and the influence which this exerted on British writers. By examining writers like Nodier, Hoffmann, Gautier, Feval and Stevenson, the book argues firstly how their writings subvert entirely the view of the Fantastic accepted by Todorov, Punter and others, to show that it is the reversal of a pre-Enlightenment, spiritual world-view which causes terror in these works, and further demonstrates that Gothic novels frequently use allusion and anachronism to portray a cyclical view of history opposed to that of Scott.

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Of all the current debates in the burgeoning field of Gothic Studies, perhaps the most urgent concerns the nature and significance of the continental tradition of the conte fantastique. Not only does Matthew Gibson's ground-breaking study provide the first coherent assessment of post-Napoleonic European Gothic, it also explores the impact that this politically and philosophically subversive continental tradition had on British writers as divergent as Sheridan Le Fanu and Robert Louis Stevenson. Linking as it does post-Revolutionary French history with the rise of French and German Romanticism and, ultimately, the Victorian Gothic, this book challenges many of our own assumptions about nineteenth-century generic conventions. Dr Terry Hale, University of Hull