Britain, France and the Gothic, 1764–1820

The Import of Terror

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Angela Wright

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Series:

Cambridge Studies in Romanticism

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In describing his proto-Gothic fiction, The Castle of Otranto (1764), as a translation, Horace Walpole was deliberately playing on national anxieties concerning the importation of war, fashion and literature from France in the aftermath of the Seven Years' War. In the last decade of the eighteenth century, as Britain went to war again with France, this time in the wake of revolution, the continuing connections between Gothic literature and France through the realms of translation, adaptation and unacknowledged borrowing led to strong suspicions of Gothic literature taking on a subversive role in diminishing British patriotism. Angela Wright explores the development of Gothic literature in Britain in the context of the fraught relationship between Britain and France, offering fresh perspectives on the works of Walpole, Radcliffe, 'Monk' Lewis and their contemporaries.

Author Biography:

Angela Wright is Senior Lecturer in Romantic Literature at the University of Sheffield. She is author of Gothic Fiction: A Reader's Guide to Essential Criticism (2007).

Release date NZ

April 18th, 2013

Author

Angela Wright

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

1 Halftones, unspecified

Pages

234

Series

Cambridge Studies in Romanticism

Dimensions

158x235x17

ISBN-13

9781107034068

Product ID

20896827

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