The psychopathology of the Gothic romance
Subtitle: perversion, neuroses and psychosis in early works of the genre
By: Ed Cameron
Publisher: McFarland & Co., Publishers
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9780786447718
Subjects: Psychology, Pathological, in literature; Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English; Psychoses in literature; Psychoanalysis and literature; History and criticism; Neuroses in literature; Deviant behavior in literature
Description: "This book uses clinical psychoanalytic theory to illustrate how early British Gothic fiction reveals undercurrents of psychopathological behavior. Chapters consider the division of the Gothic novel; how early British Gothic romance parallels Freud's notion; the genre's origins in Walpole's The Castle of Otranto; sexual differentiation; Ann Radcliffe; Matthew Lewis; and the confusion between self and other"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-203) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the gothic on the couch; title: The two-headed gothic monster; title: Retrospective fantasy and the uncanny structure of gothic romance; title: Horace Walpole and the perverse origins of the gothic romance; title: Sexual difference and the gothic sublime; title: Ann Radcliffe and the gothic terror of hysteria; title: Matthew Lewis and the gothic horror of obsessional neurosis; title: Conclusion: James Hogg, the psychotic doppelgänger, and the foreclosure of the gothic.