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Contesting the Gothic

Name: Contesting the Gothic
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 02038744
Price: 50859 HUF
Availability: InStock
Author: James Watt
ISBN: 9780521640992

Fiction, Genre and Cultural Conflict, 1764-1832

James Watt

Language

English

Book Hardback

Libristo code: 02038744

Publishers Cambridge University Press, June 1999

James Watt's historically grounded account of Gothic fiction, first published in 1999, takes issue w... Full description

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James Watt's historically grounded account of Gothic fiction, first published in 1999, takes issue with received accounts of the genre as a stable and continuous tradition. Charting its vicissitudes from Walpole to Scott, Watt shows the Gothic to have been a heterogeneous body of fiction, characterized at times by antagonistic relations between various writers or works. Central to his argument about these works' writing and reception is a nuanced understanding of their political import: Walpole's attempt to forge an aristocratic identity, the loyalist affiliations of many neglected works of the 1790s, a reconsideration of the subversive reputation of The Monk, and the ways in which Radcliffean romance proved congenial to conservative critics. Watt concludes by looking ahead to the fluctuating critical status of Scott and the Gothic, and examines the process by which the Gothic came to be defined as a monolithic tradition, in a way that continues to exert a powerful hold.