Social Reform in Gothic Writing [electronic resource] : Fantastic Forms of Change, 1764-1834 /
Ledoux, Ellen Malenas.author.
Social Reform in Gothic Writing provides a transatlantic view of the politically transformative power that Gothic texts effected during the Revolutionary era (1764-1834) through providing fresh readings of canonical and non-canonical writing in a wide variety of genres.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- 1. Introduction: Fantastic Forms of Change -- 2. Emergent Forms: Horace Walpole, Politics, and the Eighteenth-Century Reader -- 3. A Castle of One's Own: The Architecture of Emerging Feminism -- 4. Transmuting the Baser Metals: The Post-Revolutionary Audience, Political Economy, and Gothic Forms in Godwin's St. Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century -- 5. 'Schemes of Reformation': Institutionalized Healthcare in Charles Brockden Brown's Arthur Mervyn -- 6. Re-forming Genres: Negotiating Slavery in the Works of Matthew Lewis.
Social Reform in Gothic Writing provides a transatlantic view of the politically transformative power that Gothic texts effected during the Revolutionary era (1764-1834) through providing fresh readings of canonical and non-canonical writing in a wide variety of genres.
Fiction.
Literature—Philosophy.
Literature, Modern—19th century.
Literature, Modern—18th century.
America—Literatures.
British literature.
Fiction.
Literary Theory.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Eighteenth-Century Literature.
North American Literature.
British and Irish Literature.