Contesting the Gothic: Fiction, Genre and Cultural Conflict, 1764-1832
Contesting the Gothic: Fiction, Genre and Cultural Conflict, 1764-1832 By James Watt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press 1999 | 218 Pages | ISBN: 0521640997 | PDF | 2 MB
Publisher: Cambridge University Press 1999 | 218 Pages | ISBN: 0521640997 | PDF | 2 MB
"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 scholars." British and American Literatures "...Contesting the Gothic is impressively researched, well-documented, and convincing in its claims." Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts "The exposition is lucid, the reasoning scrupulous, the tone measured and never polemical. The book can be recommended to anyone as the model of a focused and thoroughly professional investigation that carves out a niche of originality in a very crowded literary shelf." Eighteenth-Century Studies