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The first full-length study of the main German contributors to the Gothic canon, to each of whom a chapter is devoted, The German Gothic Novel in Anglo-German Perspective is an original historical and comparative study that goes well beyond the necessary review of the evidence to include much new material, many new insights and pieces of analysis, and some fundamental changes of perspective. The book aims to put the record straight in bibliographical and literary historical terms, and to act as a reference guide to facilitate future research, so that anyone working on the German Gothic novel or on Anglo-German interactions in the field of Gothic, will find there references to all the relevant secondary literature. The German Gothic Novel in Anglo-German Perspective is addressed to Germanists, but also to teachers and students of English, American and comparative literature, for there is at present hardly a ‘hotter’ subject than Gothic. The book’s emphasis on the Gothic work of canonical writers should prompt even conservative German Departments to reconsider their attitude to Gothic. Being addressed to scholars and students of German, German quotations are given in German, but English translations are added for the convenience of English and American scholars and students of Gothic, who represent another important section of the books’ target audience.
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The literary mode of the Gothic is well established in English Studies, and there is growing interest in its internationality. Gothic fiction is seen as transgressive, especially in the way it crosses borders, often illicitly -- for instance, in the form of plagiarized texts or pseudo-translations of nonexistent sources. In the 1790s, when the English Gothic novel was emerging, the real or ostensible source of many of these uncanny texts was Germany. This first book in English dedicated to the German Gothic in over thirty years is aimed at students and researchers in German Studies and English Studies, and redresses deficiencies in existing sources, which are outdated, piecemeal, or not sufficiently grounded in German Studies. The book examines the international reception of German Gothic since the 1790s heyday of the Gothic novel in Britain and Germany; traces a line of Gothic writing in German to the present day; and inquires into the extraliterary impact of German Gothic. Thus the essays do full justice to the Gothic as a site of conflict and exchange -- both between cultures and between discourses.
Roman gothique --- Littérature allemande --- Littérature d'épouvante --- Films d'horreur --- Gothic fiction (Literary genre), German --- Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English --- Gothic revival (Literature) --- Horror tales --- Horror films --- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- Histoire et critique --- Influence --- Thèmes, motifs --- History and criticism --- Appreciation --- Artistic impact --- Artistic influence --- Impact (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- Literary impact --- Literary influence --- Literary tradition --- Tradition (Literature) --- Art --- Influence (Psychology) --- Literature --- Intermediality --- Intertextuality --- Originality in literature --- Horror --- Horror fiction --- Horror stories --- Scary stories --- Scary tales --- Tales, Horror --- Terror --- Terror tales --- Fiction --- Ghost stories --- Spookfests (Motion pictures) --- Motion pictures --- Haunted house films --- Monster films --- Literary movements --- Revival movements (Art) --- Romanticism --- German gothic fiction (Literary genre) --- German fiction --- English gothic fiction (Literary genre) --- English fiction --- Littérature allemande --- Histoire et critique. --- Influence. --- Thèmes, motifs --- History and criticism. --- Appreciation. --- German Gothic. --- Gothic Fiction. --- Internationality. --- Plagiarized Texts. --- Pseudo-Translations. --- Transgressive. --- Uncanny Texts.
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