The Coherence of Gothic Conventions

by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

Book Overview

First published in 1986, The Coherence of Gothic Conventions makes the case that the Gothic in English literature has been marked by a distinctive and highly influential set of ambitions about relations of meaning. Through readings of classic Gothic authors as well as of De Quincey and the Bront s, Sedgwick links the most characteristic thematic conventions of the Gothic firmly and usably to the genre's radical claims for representation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032386568
• ISBN13: 9781032386560
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 196 Pages