Narrow your search

Library

KBR (1)

KU Leuven (1)

UGent (1)

ULiège (1)

VUB (1)


Resource type

book (1)


Language

English (1)


Year
From To Submit

2012 (1)

Listing 1 - 1 of 1
Sort by

Book
Popular revenants : the German gothic and its international reception, 1800-2000
Authors: ---
ISBN: 9781571135193 1571135197 9781571138279 9786613772114 1571138277 1281016810 Year: 2012 Volume: *96 Publisher: Rochester : Camden House,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

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and researchers in German Studies and English Studies, and redresses deficiencies in existing sources, which are outdated, piecemeal, or not sufficiently grounded in German Studies.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.

Listing 1 - 1 of 1
Sort by