The Fantastic and European Gothic History, Literature and the French Revolution.
Material type: TextSeries: Publication details: Cardiff : University of Wales Press, (c)2013.Description: 1 online resource (256 pages)Content type:- text
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- 9780708325735
- PN3499 .F368 2013
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Includes bibliographies and index.
Acknowledgements; Introduction; Fantasy and Counter-Revolution in the Theory and Fiction of Charles Nodier; History and Politics in the Fantastic Fiction of Hoffmann,and his Reception in France; The Double Life of the Artist in the Récits fantastiques of Théophile Gautier, and the Rejection of Bourgeois Life under the July Monarchy; 'A Life in Death a Death in Life': the Legitimist Novels of Paul Féval and the Catastrophe of the Second Empire; Paul Féval's Le Chevalier Ténèbre and Le Fanu's 'The Room in the Dragon Volant': the Failures of the Bourbon Restoration
Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Olalla', The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and the Refutation of Utilitarian MoralityConclusion; Notes; Short Chronology of Relevant Events; Bibliography; Index
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.
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