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The Rise of the Gothic Novel
Contributor(s): Kilgour, Maggie (Author)
ISBN: 0415081823     ISBN-13: 9780415081825
Publisher: Routledge
OUR PRICE:   $46.50  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: June 1995
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Annotation: Looks at the novels of Godwin, Wollstonecraft, RAdcliffe, Lewis and Shelley to demonstrate that the gothic presents an alternative model of relations: between individuals, characters, parts of a narrative, men and women. This draws together the personal, political and literary aspects of this deviant and subversive form.
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism
Dewey: 823.087
LCCN: 94027075
Physical Information: 0.66" H x 5.51" W x 8.5" (0.82 lbs) 292 pages
 
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One of the central images conjured up by the gothic novel is that of a shadowy spectre slowly rising from a mysterious abyss. In The Rise of the Gothic Novel, Maggie Kilgour argues that the ghost of the gothic is now resurrected in the critical methodologies which investigate it for the revelation of buried cultural secrets.
In this cogent analysis of the rise and fall of the gothic as a popular form, Kilgour juxtaposes the writings of William Godwin with Mary Wollstonecraft, and Ann Radcliffe with Matthew Lewis. She concludes with a close reading of the quintessential gothic novel, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
An impressive and highly original study, The Rise of the Gothic Novel is an invaluable contribution to the continuing literary debates which surround this influential genre.