The Coherence of Gothic Conventions

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-38656-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 196 Seiten, Format (B × H): 234 mm x 155 mm, Gewicht: 306 g

Reihe: Routledge Revivals

First published in 1986, The Coherence of Gothic Conventions makes the case that the Gothic in English literature has been marked by a distinctive and highly influential set of ambitions about relations of meaning. Through readings of classic Gothic authors as well as of De Quincey and the Brontës, Sedgwick links the most characteristic thematic conventions of the Gothic firmly and usably to the genre’s radical claims for representation. The introduction clarifies the connection between the linguistic or epistemological argument of the Gothic and its epochal crystallization of modern gender and modern homophobia. This book will be of interest to students of literature, cultural studies and psychology.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kosofsky Sedgwick, Eve

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements Preface Introduction 1. The Structure of Gothic Conventions 2. Language as Live Burial: Thomas de Quincey 3. Immediacy, Doubleness, and the Unspeakable: Wuthering Heights and Villette 4. The Character in the Veil: Imagery of the Surface in the Gothic Novel