Women's Gothic: From Clara Reeve to Mary Shelley (Writers and Their Work) - Softcover

Clery, E.J.

 
9780746311448: Women's Gothic: From Clara Reeve to Mary Shelley (Writers and Their Work)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0746311443 ISBN 13: 9780746311448
Verlag: Northcote House Publishers Ltd, 2004

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Female writers of the Gothic were hell-raisers in more than one sense: not only did they specialize in evoking scenes of horror, cruelty, and supernaturalism, but in doing so they exploded the literary conventions of the day, and laid claim to realms of the imagination hitherto reserved for men. They were rewarded with popular success, large profits, and even critical adulation. E.J. Clery's acclaimed study tells the strange but true story of women's gothic. She identifies contemporary fascination with the operation of the passions and the example of the great tragic actress Sarah Siddons as enabling factors, and then examines in depth the careers of two pioneers of the genre, Clara Reeve and Sophie Lee, its reigning queen, Ann Radcliffe, and the daring experimentalists Joanna Baillie and Charlotte Dacre. The account culminates with Mary Shelley, whose Frankenstein (1818) has attained mythical status. Students and scholars as well as general readers will find Women's Gothic a stimulating introductio

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E. J. Clery teaches at Sheffield Hallam University.

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Verlag
Northcote House Publishers Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0746311443
ISBN 13 
9780746311448
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Taschenbuch
Auflage
2
Anzahl der Seiten
176
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