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The Failure of Gothic: Problems of Disjunction in an Eighteenth-Century Literary Form

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The Failure of Gothic: Problems of Disjunction in an Eighteenth-Century Literary Form - Napier, Elizabeth R
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The English Gothic novel has recently attracted renewed attention by modern critics who have argued its importance as a mirror of late 18th-century discomfort with the political, psychological, and sexual climate of the times. Elizabeth Napier's work challenges these views, suggesting that the instability of the form may be more successfully addressed through a study of generic structure and its relationship to the designs of the fictional works that preceded it. The first full-length study of narrative conventions in the ...

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The Failure of Gothic: Problems of Disjunction in an Eighteenth-Century Literary Form 1987, Clarendon Press, Oxford, England

ISBN-13: 9780198128601

Hardcover