Gothic Writing 1750-1820 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780719060090)

Now available again in paperback, this provocative study by Robert Miles uses the tools of modern literary theory and criticism to analyse this very distinctive body of texts. Miles introduces the reader to contexts of Gothic in the eigteenth century including its historical development and its placement within the period's concerns with discourse and gender.

By using texts ranging from sensational novels such as The Monk and The Mysteries of Udolpho, poetic variations on Gothic by Coleridge, Shelley and Keats, to satirical works on the theme by Jane Austen, Miles presents an intriguing overview of Gothic literature. By drawing extensively on the ideas of Michel Foucault to establish a genealogy he brings Gothic writing in from the margins of 'popular fiction', resituating it at the centre of debate about Romanticism.

Author: Robert Miles
ISBN-10: 0719060095
ISBN-13: 9780719060090
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/07/2002
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.76lbs
Size: 8.62h x 5.42w x 0.77d