The Rise of Supernatural Fiction, 1762 1800
(Sprache: Englisch)
Literary and historical study of supernatural or Gothic fiction of the Romantic period.
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Literary and historical study of supernatural or Gothic fiction of the Romantic period.
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List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I. Techniques of Ghost-Seeing: 1. The case of the Cock Lane ghost; 2. Producing enthusiastic terror; Part II. The Business of Romance: 3. The advantages of history; 4. Back to the future; 5. The value of the supernatural in a commercial society; Part III. The Strange Luxury of Artificial Terror: 6. Women, luxury and the sublime; 7. The supernatural explained; 8. Like a heroine; Part IV. Magico-Political Tales: 9. The terrorist system; 10. Conspiracy, subversion, supernaturalism; Afterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autoren: E. J. Clery , Clery E. J.
- 240 Seiten, Maße: 15,2 x 22,9 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Marilyn Butler
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- ISBN-10: 0521664586
- ISBN-13: 9780521664585
- Erscheinungsdatum: 27.05.2006
Sprache:
Englisch
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'Clery's breadth recalls Raymond Williams who could also have written a powerful statement like this ... The Rise of Supernatural Fiction should be read by an audience far wider than one concerned with Gothic culture alone.' The Wordsworth Circle '... superbly articulate and engaging ... this latest addition to the excellent Cambridge Studies in Romanticism series is a refreshingly new 'empirical' approach to fantastic literature that relates its contents to issues of social, political and economic change'. The Byron Journal '... a thoroughly and widely researched book ... intermittently witty as well as given to acute and insightful analysis'. Romanticism on the Net 'The best book to appear on the Gothic this year.' Year's Work in English Studies 'Clery's is one of the best books on the novel in the Romantic period which I have recently read. [Clery] provides splendidly selected and marshalled evidence in support of her thesis. But perhaps best of all, she situates her discussions within, and constantly refers to the power of, the novel-reading market-place of the Romantic period. This allows Clery, more successfully than any other critic I have read, to establish the institutional links between the providers and consumers of supernatural fiction in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, authoritatively to present the cultural expectations of audiences concerning the Gothic novels and romances they read and thus to trace the emergence of something like the modern literary industry. This is the single most vitalizing and illuminating element in Clery's work, and permits her a perspective on her materials of which all later students will have to take account ... She is entirely expert and au fait in her handling of both the historical and cultural, and the literary aspects of her study. Her writing is informed by theory but remains clean and lucid, and she has a talent for aphorism which she uses to great effect ... To add to its many other charms, The
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Rise of Supernatural Fiction, 1762-1800 has fascinating and extensive notes and an excellent bibliography. Altogether, Clery's book is a landmark'. Romanticism
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