Contesting the Gothic
Subtitle: Fiction, Genre and Cultural Conflict, 17641832 (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: March 16, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780521024815
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: 16th to 18th centuries; Horror tales, English; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; History and criticism; British Isles; Gothic & Romance; English fiction--18th century--History and cr; English fiction--18th century--History and criticism; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / Gothic & Romance; Literary Criticism-English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; English fiction; 18th century; 19th century
First sentence: While literary critics have often signalled their confusion about the meaning of The Castle of Otranto, they have nonetheless been virtually united in seizing upon the second edition's subtitle, 'A Gothic Story', and locating the work as the point of origin for a whole genre.