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A Geography of Victorian Gothic Fiction: Mapping History's Nightmares by Robert
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0199262187
ISBN-13
9780199262182
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2431050
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
322 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Geography of Victorian Gothic Fiction : Mapping History's Nightmares
Subject
Horror & Supernatural, Subjects & Themes / Historical events, Gothic & Romance, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year
2003
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
14.1 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
21
TitleLeading
A
Reviews
'He ... provides an excellent demonstration of the gothic foundations of detective fiction. Mighall's command of the primary and secondary literature makes for illuminating readings of many contributors to Victorian fiction, both great and small.'B. F. Fisher, Choice, Sept. 00., '... excellent book .. this is an original, thoughtful and ground-breakingbook. No student of Victorian literature can afford to neglect it. Unusuallyfor a critical book, it is also great fun'Michael Newton, THES, 'judiciously and convincingly using different discursive contexts to shed light on the heritage from the Gothic of Victorian fiction.'Victor Sage, "An important and robustly argumentative definition of the Gothic.... [It] redraws the critical map."--John Sutherland, Independent on Sunday "Mighall's command of the primary and secondary literature makes for illuminating readings of many contributors to Victorian fiction, both great and small."--Choice, 'He ... provides an excellent demonstration of the gothic foundations ofdetective fiction. Mighall's command of the primary and secondary literaturemakes for illuminating readings of many contributors to Victorian fiction, bothgreat and small.'B. F. Fisher, Choice, Sept. 00., 'judiciously and convincingly using different discursive contexts to shed light on the heritage from the Gothic of Victorian fiction.'Victor Sage'always remains genuinely challenging'Victor Sage'this book is a serious and well-documented contribution to the study of the Gothic mode, which sheds some fascinating light on what currently remains a really problematic area for the scholar; namely, the mysterious transition from the popular gene of the literary histories (1764-1820) to the survival and diffusion of the mode in Victorian texts ... It is Mighall's sharpness and detail which makes the book's anti-essentialism a real contribution to thehistory of the Gothic in the nineteenth century.'Victor Sage'He ... provides an excellent demonstration of the gothic foundations of detective fiction. Mighall's command of the primary and secondary literature makes for illuminating readings of many contributors to Victorian fiction, both great and small.'B. F. Fisher, Choice, Sept. 00.''an important and robustly argumentative definition of the Gothic. ... [It] redraws the critical map'.' John Sutherland, Independent on Sunday 29/11/99'... excellent book .. this is an original, thoughtful and ground-breaking book. No student of Victorian literature can afford to neglect it. Unusually for a critical book, it is also great fun'Michael Newton, THES, "An important and robustly argumentative definition of the Gothic.... [It] redraws the critical map."--John Sutherland,Independent on Sunday "Mighall's command of the primary and secondary literature makes for illuminating readings of many contributors to Victorian fiction, both great and small."--Choice, '... excellent book .. this is an original, thoughtful and ground-breaking book. No student of Victorian literature can afford to neglect it. Unusually for a critical book, it is also great fun'Michael Newton, THES, "An important and robustly argumentative definition of the Gothic.... [It] redraws the critical map."--John Sutherland, Independent on Sunday"Mighall's command of the primary and secondary literature makes for illuminating readings of many contributors to Victorian fiction, both great and small."--Choice, 'this book is a serious and well-documented contribution to the study of the Gothic mode, which sheds some fascinating light on what currently remains a really problematic area for the scholar; namely, the mysterious transition from the popular gene of the literary histories (1764-1820) to thesurvival and diffusion of the mode in Victorian texts ... It is Mighall's sharpness and detail which makes the book's anti-essentialism a real contribution to the history of the Gothic in the nineteenth century.'Victor Sage, ''an important and robustly argumentative definition of the Gothic. ... [It] redraws the critical map'.' John Sutherland, Independent on Sunday 29/11/99
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
823/.087290908
Table Of Content
Introduction: Outside in: Gothic criticism and the pull into interiority1. History as nightmare2. From Udolpho to Spitalfields: mapping Gothic London3. Haunted houses I and II4. Atavism: a Darwinian nightmare5. Unspeakable vices: moral monstrosity and representation6. Making a case: vampirism, sexuality, and interpretationPostscript: From landscape to dreamscape: redrawing the Gothic mapBibliographyIndex
Synopsis
This is the first major full-length study of Victorian Gothic fiction. Combining original readings of familiar texts with a rich store of historical sources, A Geography of Victorian Gothic Fiction is an historicist survey of nineteenth-century Gothic writing--from Dickens to Stoker, Wilkie Collins to Conan Doyle, through European travelogues, sexological textbooks, ecclesiastic histories and pamphlets on the perils of self-abuse. Critics have thus far tended to concentrate on specific angles of Gothic writing (gender or race), or the belief that the Gothic 'returned' at the so-called fin de si cle . Robert Mighall, by contrast, demonstrates how the Gothic mode was active throughout the Victorian period, and provides historical explanations for its development from late eighteenth century, through the 'Urban Gothic' fictions of the mid-Victorian period, the 'Suburban Gothic' of the Sensation vogue, through to the somatic horrors of Stevenson, Machen, Stoker, and Doyle at the century's close. Mighall challenges the psychological approach to Gothic fiction which currently prevails, demonstrating the importance of geographical, historical, and discursive factors that have been largely neglected by critics, and employing a variety of original sources to demonstrate the contexts of Gothic fiction and explain its development in the Victorian period., A Geography of Victorian Gothic Fiction challenges the prevailing view that 'psychology' explains the Gothic. Mighall offers original readings of familiar texts, from Dickens to Stoker, Wilkie Collins to Conan Doyle; but also a rich store of original sources, from European travelogues to sexological textbooks, from ecclesiastic histories to pamphlets on the perils of self-abuse., This is the first major full-length study of Victorian Gothic fiction. Combining original readings of familiar texts with a rich store of historical sources, A Geography of Victorian Gothic Fiction is an historicist survey of nineteenth-century Gothic writing - from Dickens to Stoker, Wilkie Collins to Conan Doyle, through European travelogues, sexological textbooks, ecclesiastic histories and pamphlets on the perils of self-abuse. Critics have thus fartended to concentrate on specific angles of Gothic writing (gender or race), or the belief that the Gothic 'returned' at the so-called fin de siècle. Robert Mighall, by contrast, demonstrates how the Gothic modewas active throughout the Victorian period, and provides historical explanations for its development from late eighteenth century, through the 'Urban Gothic' fictions of the mid-Victorian period, the 'Suburban Gothic' of the Sensation vogue, through to the somatic horrors of Stevenson, Machen, Stoker, and Doyle at the century's close. Mighall challenges the psychological approach to Gothic fiction which currently prevails, demonstrating the importance of geographical, historical, and discursivefactors that have been largely neglected by critics, and employing a variety of original sources to demonstrate the contexts of Gothic fiction and explain its development in the Victorian period., This is the first major full-length study of Victorian Gothic fiction. Combining original readings of familiar texts with a rich store of historical sources, A Geography of Victorian Gothic Fiction is an historicist survey of nineteenth-century Gothic writing - from Dickens to Stoker, Wilkie Collins to Conan Doyle, through European travelogues, sexological textbooks, ecclesiastic histories and pamphlets on the perils of self-abuse. Critics have thus far tended to concentrate on specific angles of Gothic writing (gender or race), or the belief that the Gothic 'returned' at the so-called fin de siècle. Robert Mighall, by contrast, demonstrates how the Gothic mode was active throughout the Victorian period, and provides historical explanations for its development from late eighteenth century, through the 'Urban Gothic' fictions of the mid-Victorian period, the 'Suburban Gothic' of the Sensation vogue, through to the somatic horrors of Stevenson, Machen, Stoker, and Doyle at the century's close. Mighall challenges the psychological approach to Gothic fiction which currently prevails, demonstrating the importance of geographical, historical, and discursive factors that have been largely neglected by critics, and employing a variety of original sources to demonstrate the contexts of Gothic fiction and explain its development in the Victorian period., This is the first major full-length study of Victorian Gothic fiction. Combining original readings of familiar texts with a rich store of historical sources, A Geography of Victorian Gothic Fiction is an historicist survey of nineteenth-century Gothic writing--from Dickens to Stoker, Wilkie Collins to Conan Doyle, through European travelogues, sexological textbooks, ecclesiastic histories and pamphlets on the perils of self-abuse. Critics have thus far tended to concentrate on specific angles of Gothic writing (gender or race), or the belief that the Gothic 'returned' at the so-called fin de siècle . Robert Mighall, by contrast, demonstrates how the Gothic mode was active throughout the Victorian period, and provides historical explanations for its development from late eighteenth century, through the 'Urban Gothic' fictions of the mid-Victorian period, the 'Suburban Gothic' of the Sensation vogue, through to the somatic horrors of Stevenson, Machen, Stoker, and Doyle at the century's close. Mighall challenges the psychological approach to Gothic fiction which currently prevails, demonstrating the importance of geographical, historical, and discursive factors that have been largely neglected by critics, and employing a variety of original sources to demonstrate the contexts of Gothic fiction and explain its development in the Victorian period.
LC Classification Number
PR878.T3M54 2003
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