{"product_id":"the-gothic-text-marshall-brown-9780804739139","title":"The Gothic Text","description":"\u003ci\u003eRomantic gothic fiction is not exciting. Gothic novels are not ghost stories. Gothic novels are not women's writing.\u003c\/i\u003e Opening with these three theses, \u003ci\u003eThe Gothic Text\u003c\/i\u003e undertakes a fresh approach to a much-studied mode. Marshall Brown combines the teleological approach to literary history developed in his \u003ci\u003ePreromanticism\u003c\/i\u003e with a European perspective on the one truly international literary form of its era. New insights into literary history and the history of ideas provide a framework for innovative close readings--of Horace Walpole's \u003ci\u003eThe Castle of Otranto\u003c\/i\u003e, Ann Radcliffe's \u003ci\u003eThe Italian\u003c\/i\u003e, and Mary Shelley's \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/i\u003e, among others--that approach classics of the genre from unusual angles. The book also provides a thoroughly researched account of German romantic psychology as it developed out of Kant's idealist philosophy into a gothic sensibility. Accessibly written and argued in careful, lively detail, \u003ci\u003eThe Gothic Text\u003c\/i\u003e gives many new impulses to the study of romanticism, nineteenth-century fiction, and the origins of psychoanalysis.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marshall Brown\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0804739137\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780804739139\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/30\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 306\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.92lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d","brand":"Marshall Brown","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44212990705919,"sku":"9780804739139","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f3506f58-0afc-4b4f-bade-435fa0858ce3.jpg?v=1692111429","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-gothic-text-marshall-brown-9780804739139","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}