Romanticism and the Gothic: Genre, Reception, and Canon Formation (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521026932)

This is the first full-length study to examine the links between high Romantic literature and what has often been thought of as a merely popular genre--the Gothic. Michael Gamer analyzes how and why Romantic writers drew on Gothic conventions while, at the same time, denying their influence in order to claim critical respectability. He shows how the reception of Gothic literature played a fundamental role in the development of Romanticism as an ideology, tracing the politics of reading, writing and reception at the end of the eighteenth century.

Author: Michael Gamer, Gamer Michael
ISBN-10: 0521026938
ISBN-13: 9780521026932
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/02/2006
Pages: 276
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.62d