| Contesting the Gothic: Fiction, Genre and Cultural Conflict, 1764-1832 Contributor(s): Watt, James (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521640997 ISBN-13: 9780521640992 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $114.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 1999 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Gothic & Romance - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 823.087 |
| LCCN: 98-42850 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in Romanticism (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6" W x 9" (0.90 lbs) 220 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Chronological Period - 18th Century - Cultural Region - British Isles - Chronological Period - 1800-1850 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This historically grounded account of Gothic fiction 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 writers or works. Watt examines the novels' political import and concludes by looking ahead to the fluctuating critical status of Scott and the Gothic, and perceptions of the Gothic as a monolithic tradition, which continue to exert a powerful hold. |