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A Spirited Exchange 1760-1960
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Avril Horner
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Paperback
Release Date: 8/1/2002
ISBN: 9780719060649
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About the Book
European Gothic: A Spirited Exchange 1760-1960 sets out to challenge the tyranny of the Anglo-American narratives that have dominated critical histories of the Gothic so far. It argues that the Gothic novel did not simply derive from The Castle of Otranto, but that it has been forged in the crucible of translation. Focussing on Gothic writing in English, French, German, Russian and Spanish, the collection charts a rich process of cross-fertilisation and, in particular, examines the importance of Anglo-French exchanges in the development of the Gothic novel within Europe and, subsequently, the United States.
Within this framework, and from a variety of critical perspectives, the thirteen contributors re-assess the work of authors such as Clara Reeve, Sophia Lee, Charlotte Smith, Ann Radcliffe, Matthew Lewis, Charles Maturin, Coleridge, Mary Shelley, Jan Potocki, Balzac, Dostoevesky, Gaston Leroux and Djuna Barnes. The volume thus offers a fresh way of thinking about Gothic lineages and histories. It will therefore be of interest to researchers and scholars of the Gothic as well as undergraduates and postgraduates taking courses in Gothic Literature, Romantic Literature, the European novel, European history and culture, and Translation Studies.
About the Author(s)
Avril Horner was formerly a Professor at the University of Salford and is now Professor of English at Kingston University, London
Table of Contents
Introduction - Avril Horner
1. Translation in distress: Cultural misappropriation and the construction of the Gothic - Terry Hale
2. European disruptions of the idealized woman: Matthew Lewis's The Monk and the Marquis de Sade's Le Nouvelle Justine - Angela Wright
3. Diderot and Maturin: Enlightenment, automata and the theatre of terror - Victor Sage
4. Verging on the Gothic: Melmoth's journey to France - Catherine Lanone
5. Europhobia: the Catholic other in Horace Walpole and Charles Maturin - Robert Miles
6. European Gothic and nineteenth-century Russian literature - Neil Cornwell
7. The robbers and the police: British romantic drama and the Gothic treacheries of Coleridge's Remorse - Peter Mortensen
8. Translating Mary Shelley's Valperga into English: Historical romance, biography or Gothic fiction - John Williams
9. 'Hallelujah to your dying screams of torture': Representations of ritual violencein English and Spanish Romanticism - Joan Curbet
10. Potocki's Gothic arabesque: Embedded narrative and the treatment of boundaries in The Manuscript Found in Saragossa (1797-1815) - Ahlam Alaki
11. The Gothic crosses the Channel: Abjection and revelation in Le Fantôme de l'Opéra - Jerrold E. Hogle
12. 'A detour of filthiness': French fiction and Djuna Barnes's Nightwood - Avril Horner
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