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This volume explores the intersection between historiography and related genres in antiquity. Papers cover the geographical range from China through the near east to the classical period in the Mediterranean. Topics addressed include the place in ancient Chinese historiography of philosophical argument; the nature and kind of historical text in the Hittite, Babylonian, Persian and biblical periods, including (for the first time) a full transliteration and translation of the Old Hittite story of Anum-hirbi and Zalpa, and a new interpretation of the Darius inscription at Behistun; and the relation of rhetorical stratagems and theory to Sallust, Livy, and Tacitus. Contributors also consider the relationship between texts, including the war narratives of Herodotus and Thucydides, and the propriety of different schemes of generic classification.

Genres [Letterkundige ] --- Genres [Literaire ] --- Genres littéraires --- Letterkundige genres --- Literaire genres --- Literary form --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Narration (Rhétorique) --- Narrative writing --- Verhaal (Retoriek) --- History, Ancient --- Histoire ancienne --- Narration --- Historiography. --- History --- History and criticism --- Historiographie --- Histoire --- Histoire et critique --- -Narration (Rhetoric) --- -Form, Literary --- Forms, Literary --- Forms of literature --- Genre (Literature) --- Genre, Literary --- Genres, Literary --- Genres of literature --- Literary forms --- Literary genetics --- Literary genres --- Literary types (Genres) --- Literature --- Narrative (Rhetoric) --- Rhetoric --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Narratees (Rhetoric) --- Ancient history --- Ancient world history --- World history --- Historiography --- -History, Ancient --- -Historiography --- Genres littéraires --- History [Ancient ] --- Literary form. --- Form, Literary --- To 1500 --- History, Ancient - Historiography. --- Narration (Rhetoric) - History - To 1500. --- Literary form - History - To 1500. --- History and criticism.

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James Watt's historically grounded account of Gothic fiction, first published in 1999, 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 various writers or works. Central to his argument about these works' writing and reception is a nuanced understanding of their political import: Walpole's attempt to forge an aristocratic identity, the loyalist affiliations of many neglected works of the 1790s, a reconsideration of the subversive reputation of The Monk, and the ways in which Radcliffean romance proved congenial to conservative critics. Watt concludes by looking ahead to the fluctuating critical status of Scott and the Gothic, and examines the process by which the Gothic came to be defined as a monolithic tradition, in a way that continues to exert a powerful hold.

English fiction --- Horror tales, English --- Gothic revival (Literature) --- Politics and culture --- Romanticism --- Literary form. --- Form, Literary --- Forms, Literary --- Forms of literature --- Genre (Literature) --- Genre, Literary --- Genres, Literary --- Genres of literature --- Literary forms --- Literary genetics --- Literary genres --- Literary types (Genres) --- Literature --- Culture --- Culture and politics --- History and criticism. --- Political aspects --- 82-392 --- 82-34 --- 820 "17" --- 820-34 --- -English fiction --- -Gothic revival (Literature) --- -Horror tales, English --- -Romanticism --- -Literary form --- -Form, Literary --- Pseudo-romanticism --- Romanticism in literature --- Aesthetics --- Fiction --- Literary movements --- English horror tales --- 820 "17" Engelse literatuur--18e eeuw. Periode 1700-1799 --- Engelse literatuur--18e eeuw. Periode 1700-1799 --- Literatuur. Gotische roman(ce) --- Sprookje. Legende. Mythe --- Engelse literatuur: sprookje; legende; mythe --- -History and criticism --- History and criticism --- History --- -History --- -82-392 --- -English literature --- Cultural sociology --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- 820-34 Engelse literatuur: sprookje; legende; mythe --- 82-34 Sprookje. Legende. Mythe --- -Social aspects --- Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English --- Literary form --- English gothic fiction (Literary genre) --- Arts and Humanities --- 18th century --- Horror tales [English ] --- 19th century --- Great Britain --- English literature --- -Political aspects