Gothic riffs
Subtitle: secularizing the uncanny in the European imaginary, 1780-1820
By: Diane Long Hoeveler.
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Columbus
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9780814211311; 9780814292303
Subjects: Gothic revival (Literature) -- Influence; Gothic revival (Literature) -- History and criticism; Gothic fiction (Literary genre) -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Gothic riffs : songs in the key of secularization; title: Gothic mediations : Shakespeare, the sentimental, and the secularization of virtue; title: "Rescue operas" and providential deism; title: Ghostly visitants : the gothic drama and the coexistence of immanence and transcendence; title: Entr'acte. Melodramatizing the gothic : the case of Thomas Holcroft; title: The gothic ballad and blood sacrifice : from Bürger to Wordsworth; title: The gothic chapbook : the class-based circulation of the unexplained supernatural.