European Gothic: A spirited exchange

by Avril Horner (Editor)

Overview

The only collection to concentrate on the European Gothic - writing in English, French, German, Russian and Spanish. Charts the rich process of cross-fertilisation, especially regarding Anglo-French exchanges in the development of the Gothic novel. Emphasises the importance of the impact of translation on the development of the Gothic novel. Uses a variety of critical perspectives to reassess 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. Offers a fresh way of thinking about Gothic lineages and histories.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781526125699
Publisher:	Manchester University Press
Publication date:	06/01/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	272
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Avril Horner is Professor of English at Kingston University, London

Table of Contents

	List of illustrations	vii
	Notes on the contributors	ix
	Acknowledgements	xii
	Introduction	1
1	Translation in distress: cultural misappropriation and the construction of the Gothic	17
2	European disruptions of the idealized woman: Matthew Lewis's The Monk and the Marquis de Sade's La Nouvelle Justine	39
3	Diderot and Maturin: Enlightenment, automata, and the theatre of terror	55
4	Verging on the Gothic: Melmoth's journey to France	71
5	Europhobia: the Catholic other in Horace Walpole and Charles Maturin	84
6	European Gothic and nineteenth-century Russian literature	104
7	The robbers and the police: British romantic drama and the Gothic treacheries of Coleridge's Remorse	128
8	Translating Mary Shelly's Valperga into English: historical romance, biography or Gothic fiction?	147
9	'Hallelujah to your dying screams of torture': representations of ritual violence in English and Spanish romanticism	161
10	Potocki's Gothic Arabesque: embedded narrative and the treatment of boundaries in The Manuscript Found in Saragossa (1797-1815)	183
11	The Gothic crosses the Channel: abjection and revelation in Le Fantome de l'Opera	204
12	'A detour of filthiness': French fiction and Djuna Barnes's Nightwood	230
	Index	252