Gothic Writing 1750-1820: A Genealogy

Author: Miles, Robert

Edition: British First

Number Of Pages: 258

EAN: 9780415077484

Release Date: 01-01-1993

Package Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 1.0 inches

Languages: English

Binding: hardcover

Details: Gothic writing has enjoyed a revival in recent years and many lesser-known titles have been republished. Traditional approaches analysed the Gothic in terms of escapist fantasy or as an unconscious reaction against the Enlightenment. In this provocative and timely study Robert Miles challenges this view and argues that the could read Gothic texts as self-conscious interventions. Drawing extensively on the ideas of Michel Foucault he situates Gothic writing within the discursive tensions of the period and by looking not just at novels, but Gothic poems and dramas he effectively takes the Gothic from the periphery of 'popular fiction', replacing it at the centre or debate about Romanticism.