[Download] Contesting the Gothic: Fiction, Genre and Cultural Conflict, 1764-1832 (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism)
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| #4515542 in Books | James Watt | 2006-03-16 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.98 x.51 x5.98l,.72 | File Name: 0521024811 | 220 pages | Contesting the Gothic Fiction Genre and Cultural Conflict 1764 1832
||4 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| A refreshing and forthright contribution to the subject|By A Customer|What can I say. This is a must buy for anyone with even a vague interest in Gothic Literature. Watt manages to totally re-evaluate a series of widely held premises surrounding the very core structure of 'Gothic' as a totallity. It should be part of your collection.|4 of 9 people found the following revi||"James Watt argues that generic labels need to be re-examined, with greater attention given to the historical specificity of certain "so-called Gothic" works. This is an exciting historicist study that provides important contextual material for Gothic schola
This historically grounded account of Gothic fiction takes issue with received accounts of the genre as a stable and continuous tradition. Charting its vicissitudes from Walpole to Scott, Watt shows the Gothic to have been a heterogeneous body of fiction, characterized at times by antagonistic relations between writers or works. Watt examines the novels' political import and concludes by looking ahead to the fluctuating critical status of Scott and the Gothic, and perce...
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