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Geography of Victorian Gothic Fiction Mapping History's Nightmares

Mighall Robert
Heftet / 2003 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780199262182
Publisert
2003
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Oxford University Press
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407 gr
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217 mm
Bredde
139 mm
Dybde
18 mm
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P, 06
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Product language
Engelsk
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Heftet
Antall sider
340

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Mighall Robert

Biographical note

Robert Mighall is an Honorary Research Fellow in English Literature at University College London and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He also held the position of Editor of Penguin Classics. His publications include an edited selection of Oscar Wilde's poetry for Everyman and Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray for Penguin Classics. He currently works as a consultant on corporate identity and communications at Citigate Lloyd Northover.

Geography of Victorian Gothic Fiction Mapping History's Nightmares

Mighall Robert
Heftet / 2003 / Engelsk
Mighall Robert
Heftet / 2003 / Engelsk
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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 the history of the Gothic in the nineteenth century.

Victor Sage

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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

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.
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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.
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Introduction: Outside in: Gothic criticism and the pull into interiority ; 1. History as nightmare ; 2. From Udolpho to Spitalfields: mapping Gothic London ; 3. Haunted houses I and II ; 4. Atavism: a Darwinian nightmare ; 5. Unspeakable vices: moral monstrosity and representation ; 6. Making a case: vampirism, sexuality, and interpretation ; Postscript: From landscape to dreamscape: redrawing the Gothic map ; Bibliography ; Index
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judiciously and convincingly using different discursive contexts to shed light on the heritage from the Gothic of Victorian fiction.
`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 the history 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
Les mer
The first full-length study devoted to the historical development of Gothic fiction in the Victorian period 'Redraws the critical map' - John Sutherland, Independent on Sunday
Robert Mighall is an Honorary Research Fellow in English Literature at University College London and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He also held the position of Editor of Penguin Classics. His publications include an edited selection of Oscar Wilde's poetry for Everyman and Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray for Penguin Classics. He currently works as a consultant on corporate identity and communications at Citigate Lloyd Northover.
Les mer
The first full-length study devoted to the historical development of Gothic fiction in the Victorian period 'Redraws the critical map' - John Sutherland, Independent on Sunday

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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 the history of the Gothic in the nineteenth century.

Victor Sage

Se alle

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

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.
Les mer
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.
Les mer
Introduction: Outside in: Gothic criticism and the pull into interiority ; 1. History as nightmare ; 2. From Udolpho to Spitalfields: mapping Gothic London ; 3. Haunted houses I and II ; 4. Atavism: a Darwinian nightmare ; 5. Unspeakable vices: moral monstrosity and representation ; 6. Making a case: vampirism, sexuality, and interpretation ; Postscript: From landscape to dreamscape: redrawing the Gothic map ; Bibliography ; Index
Les mer
judiciously and convincingly using different discursive contexts to shed light on the heritage from the Gothic of Victorian fiction.
`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 the history 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
Les mer
The first full-length study devoted to the historical development of Gothic fiction in the Victorian period 'Redraws the critical map' - John Sutherland, Independent on Sunday
Robert Mighall is an Honorary Research Fellow in English Literature at University College London and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He also held the position of Editor of Penguin Classics. His publications include an edited selection of Oscar Wilde's poetry for Everyman and Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray for Penguin Classics. He currently works as a consultant on corporate identity and communications at Citigate Lloyd Northover.
Les mer
The first full-length study devoted to the historical development of Gothic fiction in the Victorian period 'Redraws the critical map' - John Sutherland, Independent on Sunday

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780199262182
Publisert
2003
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
407 gr
Høyde
217 mm
Bredde
139 mm
Dybde
18 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
340

Forfatter
Mighall Robert

Biographical note

Robert Mighall is an Honorary Research Fellow in English Literature at University College London and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He also held the position of Editor of Penguin Classics. His publications include an edited selection of Oscar Wilde's poetry for Everyman and Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray for Penguin Classics. He currently works as a consultant on corporate identity and communications at Citigate Lloyd Northover.

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