Romanticism and the Gothic : Genre, Reception, and Canon Formation Hardback
by Michael Gamer
Part of the Cambridge Studies in Romanticism series
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This is the first full-length study to examine the links between high Romantic literature and what has often been thought of as a merely popular genre - the Gothic.
Michael Gamer offers a sharply focused analysis of how and why Romantic writers drew on Gothic conventions whilst, at the same time, denying their influence in order to claim critical respectability.
He shows how the reception of Gothic literature, including its institutional and commercial recognition as a form of literature, played a fundamental role in the development of Romanticism as an ideology.
In doing so he examines the early history of the Romantic movement and its assumptions about literary value, and the politics of reading, writing and reception at the end of the eighteenth century.
As a whole the book makes an original contribution to our understanding of genre, tracing the impact of reception, marketing and audience on its formation.
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- Pages:274 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:04/09/2000
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- ISBN:9780521773287
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:274 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:04/09/2000
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521773287
