The Modern Gothic and Literary Doubles

The Modern Gothic and Literary Doubles
Author: L. Dryden
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2003-09-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0230006124

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The Modern Gothic and Literary Doubles is concerned with Gothic representations of London in the late 19th century. Establishing that a modern Gothic literary mode relocates the traditional rural Gothic to the late 19th century metropolis, this volume explores the cultural history of London in the 19th century. The subsequent discussion of the Gothic fictions of Stevenson, Wilde and Wells offers new perspectives from which to assess the impact of contemporary perceptions of London as a Gothicized space on the works of these novelists.

The Modern Gothic and Literary Doubles

The Modern Gothic and Literary Doubles
Author: L. Dryden
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2003-09-02
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781403905109

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The Modern Gothic and Literary Doubles is concerned with Gothic representations of London in the late 19th century. Establishing that a modern Gothic literary mode relocates the traditional rural Gothic to the late 19th century metropolis, this volume explores the cultural history of London in the 19th century. The subsequent discussion of the Gothic fictions of Stevenson, Wilde and Wells offers new perspectives from which to assess the impact of contemporary perceptions of London as a Gothicized space on the works of these novelists.

Modern Gothic

Modern Gothic
Author: Victor Sage
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1996
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780719042089

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This lively collection of essays aims to chart the survival of the gothic strain - the dark, the forbidding, the alienated, the fantastic - in a spectrum of popular and 'high cultural' forms of representation.

Robert Louis Stevenson and the Great Affair

Robert Louis Stevenson and the Great Affair
Author: Richard J. Hill
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2017-02-03
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317062205

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In his travel narrative Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes (1879), Robert Louis Stevenson declares, "I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. " Taking up the concepts of time, place, and memory, the contributors to this collection explore in what ways the dynamic view of life suggested by this quotation permeates Stevenson's work. The essays adopt a wide variety of critical approaches, including post-colonial theory, post-structuralism, new historicism, art history, and philosophy, making use of the vast array of literary materials that Stevenson left across a global journey that began in Scotland in 1850 and ended in Samoa in 1894. These range from travel journals, letters, and classic literary staples such as Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, to rarely read masterpieces such as The Master of Ballantrae or The Ebb-Tide. While much recent scholarship on Stevenson foregrounds geography, the present volume also examines the theme of movement across memory, time, and generic boundaries. Taken together, the essays offer a view of Stevenson that demonstrates how the protean nature of his literary output reflects the radical developments in science, technology, and culture that characterized the age in which he lived.

The Cambridge Companion to the Modern Gothic

The Cambridge Companion to the Modern Gothic
Author: Jerrold E. Hogle
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2014-12-04
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1107023564

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This Companion explores the Gothic across literature, film, television, and cyberspace, revealing how it has proliferated since 1900 as an expression of modernity. Essays examine the role of Gothic in major struggles of modern life over sex and gender, the intermixing of different cultures, and the very nature of modernity.

Doubles and Hybrids in Latin American Gothic

Doubles and Hybrids in Latin American Gothic
Author: Antonio Alcalá González
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2019-09-25
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1000712141

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Doubles and Hybrids in Latin American Gothic focuses on a recurrent motif that is fundamental in the Gothic—the double. This volume explores how this ancient notion acquires tremendous force in a region, Latin America, which is itself defined by duplicity (indigenous/European, autochthonous religions/Catholic). Despite this duplicity and at the same time because of it, this region has also generated "mestizaje," or forms resulting from racial mixing and hybridity. This collection, then, aims to contribute to the current discussion about the Gothic in Latin America by examining the doubles and hybrid forms that result from the violent yet culturally fertile process of colonization that took place in the area.

Romantic Doubles

Romantic Doubles
Author: Benjamin Eric Daffron
Publisher:
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2002
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

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The author contends throughout this book that new theories of social organization contradicted modern definitions of sexuality, while sexual definitions conflicted with social theories. He argues that he double is the precise literary site for connecting the social to the sexual. --introd.

The Encyclopedia of the Gothic

The Encyclopedia of the Gothic
Author: William Hughes
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 880
Release: 2015-10-06
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1119210410

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The Encylopedia of the Gothic features a series of newly-commissioned essays from experts in Gothic studies that cover all aspects of the Gothic as it is currently taught and researched, along with the development of the genre and its impact on contemporary culture. Comprises over 200 newly commissioned entries written by a stellar cast of over 130 experts in the field Arranged in A-Z format across two fully cross-referenced volumes Represents the definitive reference guide to all aspects of the Gothic Provides comprehensive coverage of relevant authors, national traditions, critical developments, and notable texts that define, shape, and inform the genre Extends beyond a purely literary analysis to explore Gothic elements of film, music, drama, art, and architecture. Explores the development of the genre and its impact on contemporary culture

The Fantastic and European Gothic

The Fantastic and European Gothic
Author: Matthew Gibson
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2013-02-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0708325734

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This iconoclastic book challenges and changes accepted opinions about the Gothic novel, and will introduce the British and American Reader to works hitherto unknown to them, but rivals in quality to the works of writers like Radcliffe, Lewis and Stoker.

Oscar Wilde and the Simulacrum

Oscar Wilde and the Simulacrum
Author: Giles Whiteley
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 373
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1351555464

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Oscar Wilde is more than a name, more than an author. From precocious Oxford undergraduate to cause celebre of the West End of the 1890s, to infamous criminal, the proper name Wilde has become an event in the history of literature and culture. Taking Wilde seriously as a philosopher in his own right, Whiteley's groundbreaking book places his texts into their philosophical context in order to show how Wilde broke from his peers, and in particular from idealism, and challenges recent neo-historicist readings of Wilde which seem content to limit his irruptive power. Using the paradoxical concept of the simulacrum to resituate Wilde's work in relation to both his precursors and his contemporaries, Whiteley's study reads Wilde through Deleuze and postmodern philosophical commentary on the simulacrum. In a series of striking juxtapositions, Whiteley challenges us to rethink both Oscar Wilde's aesthetics and his philosophy, to take seriously both the man and the mask. His philosophy of masks is revealed to figure a truth of a different kind - the simulacra through which Wilde begins to develop and formulate a mature philosophy that constitutes an ethics of joy.