Gothic Radicalism: Literature, Philosophy and Psychoanalysis in the Nineteenth Century

by Andrew Smith

Book Overview

Applying ideas drawn from contemporary critical theory this book historicizes psychoanalysis through a new, and significant, theorization of the Gothic. The central premise is that the nineteenth-century Gothic produced a radical critique of accounts of sublimity and Freudian psychoanalysis. This book makes a major contribution to an understanding of both the nineteenth century and the Gothic discourse which challenged the dominant ideas of that period...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349413798
• ISBN13: 9781349413799
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"