Gothic Writing 1750-1820: A Genealogy, Second Edition - Softcover

Miles, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0719060095 ISBN 13: 9780719060090

Publisher: Manchester University Press, 2002

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Robert Miles is Professor of English at the University of Victoria, Canada

Review:

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About this edition

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0719060095
• ISBN 13: 9780719060090
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 256