The Failure of Gothic: Problems of Disjunction in an Eighteenth-Century Literary Form

by Elizabeth R. Napier

The English Gothic novel has recently attracted renewed attention by modern critics who have argued its importance as a mirror of late 18th-century discomfort with the political, psychological, and sexual climate of the times. Elizabeth Napier's work challenges these views, suggesting that the instability of the form may be more successfully addressed through a study of generic structure and its relationship to the designs of the fictional works that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198128606
• ISBN13: 9780198128601
• Release Date: March 1987
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.