In describing his proto-Gothic fiction, The Castle of Otranto (1764), as a translation, Horace Walpole was deliberately playing on national anxieties concerning the importation of war, fashion and literature from France in the aftermath of the Seven Years' War. In the last decade of the eighteenth century, as Britain went to war again with France, this time in the wake of revolution, the continuing connections between Gothic literature and France through the realms of translation, adaptation and unacknowledged borrowing led ...
Read More
In describing his proto-Gothic fiction, The Castle of Otranto (1764), as a translation, Horace Walpole was deliberately playing on national anxieties concerning the importation of war, fashion and literature from France in the aftermath of the Seven Years' War. In the last decade of the eighteenth century, as Britain went to war again with France, this time in the wake of revolution, the continuing connections between Gothic literature and France through the realms of translation, adaptation and unacknowledged borrowing led to strong suspicions of Gothic literature taking on a subversive role in diminishing British patriotism. Angela Wright explores the development of Gothic literature in Britain in the context of the fraught relationship between Britain and France, offering fresh perspectives on the works of Walpole, Radcliffe, 'Monk' Lewis and their contemporaries.
Read Less
Add this copy of Britain, France and the Gothic, 1764-1820 to cart. $34.78, new condition, Sold by Ria Christie Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Uxbridge, MIDDLESEX, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2015 by Cambridge University Press.
Add this copy of Britain, France and the Gothic, 1764-1820: The Import to cart. $38.32, new condition, Sold by Ingram Customer Returns Center rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from NV, USA, published 2015 by Cambridge University Press.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
New. Print on demand Trade paperback (US). Contains: Halftones. Cambridge Studies in Romanticism . 1 b/w illus. Intended for professional and scholarly audience.
Add this copy of Britain, France and the Gothic, 1764-1820: the Import to cart. $44.43, new condition, Sold by Media Smart rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hawthorne, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2015 by Cambridge University Press.
Add this copy of Britain, France and the Gothic, 1764-1820: The Import to cart. $44.58, new condition, Sold by Booksplease rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Southport, MERSEYSIDE, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2015 by Cambridge University Press.
Add this copy of Britain, France and the Gothic, 1764-1820: The Import to cart. $66.61, new condition, Sold by Ingram Customer Returns Center rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from NV, USA, published 2013 by Cambridge University Press.
Add this copy of Britain, France and the Gothic, 1764? 1820: the Import to cart. $67.93, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2015 by Cambridge University Press.
Add this copy of Britain, France and the Gothic, 1764-1820 to cart. $84.40, new condition, Sold by Ria Christie Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Uxbridge, MIDDLESEX, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2013 by Cambridge University Press.
Add this copy of Britain, France and the Gothic, 1764-1820: The Import to cart. $86.90, new condition, Sold by Booksplease rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Southport, MERSEYSIDE, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2013 by Cambridge University Press.
Add this copy of Britain, France and the Gothic, 1764? 1820: the Import to cart. $103.41, new condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2015 by Cambridge University Press.
Add this copy of Britain, France and the Gothic, 1764? 1820: the Import to cart. $118.67, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2013 by Cambridge University Press.