Book: Romanticism and the Gothic: Genre, Reception, and Canon Formation
Author: Michael Gamer
Pages: 276
Format: pdf
Language: English
ISBN10: 0521026938
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 analyzes how and why Romantic writers drew on Gothic conventions while, at the same time, denying their influence in order to claim critical respectability. He shows how the reception of Gothic literature played a fundamental role in the development of Romanticism as an ideology, tracing the politics of reading, writing and reception at the end of the eighteenth century.
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