{"product_id":"gothic-riffs-diane-hoeveler-9780814252376","title":"Gothic Riffs: Secularizing the Uncanny in the European Imaginary, 1780-1820","description":"\u003ci\u003eGothic Riffs: Secularizing the Uncanny in the European Imaginary, 1780-1820\u003c\/i\u003e by Diane Long Hoeveler provides the first comprehensive study of what are called \"collateral gothic\" genres--operas, ballads, chapbooks, dramas, and melodramas--that emerged out of the gothic novel tradition founded by Horace Walpole, Matthew Lewis, and Ann Radcliffe. The role of religion and its more popular manifestations, superstition and magic, in the daily lives of Western Europeans were effectively undercut by the forces of secularization that were gaining momentum on every front, particularly by 1800. It is clear, however, that the lower class and the emerging bourgeoisie were loath to discard their traditional beliefs. We can see their search for a sense of transcendent order and spiritual meaning in the continuing popularity of gothic performances that demonstrate that there was more than a residue of a religious calendar still operating in the public performative realm. Because this bourgeois culture could not turn away from God, it chose to be haunted, in its literature and drama, by God's uncanny avatars: priests, corrupt monks, incestuous fathers and uncles. The gothic aesthetic emerged during this period as an ideologically contradictory and complex discourse system; a secularizing of the uncanny; a way of alternately valorizing and at the same time slandering the realms of the supernatural, the sacred, the maternal, and the primitive.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Diane Hoeveler\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0814252370\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814252376\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 310\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.01lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.70d","brand":"Diane Hoeveler","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926422585599,"sku":"9780814252376","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_2f5fb5d2-ee10-4fa1-95a4-0a02f6864cb2.jpg?v=1681083002","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/gothic-riffs-diane-hoeveler-9780814252376","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}