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European Gothic
European Gothic, <i>European Gothic: A Spirited Exchange 1760-1960</i> sets out to challenge the tyranny of the Anglo-American narratives that have dominated critical histories of the Gothic so far. It argues that the Gothic novel did not simply derive from <i>The Castle , European Gothic has a rating of 3.5 stars
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European Gothic, European Gothic: A Spirited Exchange 1760-1960 sets out to challenge the tyranny of the Anglo-American narratives that have dominated critical histories of the Gothic so far. It argues that the Gothic novel did not simply derive from The Castle , European Gothic
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  • European Gothic
  • Written by author Avril Horner
  • Published by Manchester University Press, November 2002
  • European Gothic: A Spirited Exchange 1760-1960 sets out to challenge the tyranny of the Anglo-American narratives that have dominated critical histories of the Gothic so far. It argues that the Gothic novel did not simply derive from The Castle
  • The importance of translation and continental European writing on the development of the Gothic novel has largely been neglected by academia, argues Horner (English, Kingston U., UK). Her collection is organized to go beyond the accepted canon in its effo
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Introduction1
1Translation in distress: cultural misappropriation and the construction of the Gothic17
2European disruptions of the idealized woman: Matthew Lewis's The Monk and the Marquis de Sade's La Nouvelle Justine39
3Diderot and Maturin: Enlightenment, automata, and the theatre of terror55
4Verging on the Gothic: Melmoth's journey to France71
5Europhobia: the Catholic other in Horace Walpole and Charles Maturin84
6European Gothic and nineteenth-century Russian literature104
7The robbers and the police: British romantic drama and the Gothic treacheries of Coleridge's Remorse128
8Translating Mary Shelly's Valperga into English: historical romance, biography or Gothic fiction?147
9'Hallelujah to your dying screams of torture': representations of ritual violence in English and Spanish romanticism161
10Potocki's Gothic Arabesque: embedded narrative and the treatment of boundaries in The Manuscript Found in Saragossa (1797-1815)183
11The Gothic crosses the Channel: abjection and revelation in Lae Fantome de l'Opera204
12'A detour of filthiness': French fiction and Djuna Barnes's Nightwood230
Index252


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