European Gothic

A spirited exchange

Avril Horner

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9780719060649
• eBook ISBN:
  9781526125699
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

The only collection to concentrate on the European Gothic - writing in English, French, German, Russian and Spanish. Charts the rich process of cross-fertilisation, especially regarding Anglo-French exchanges in the development of the Gothic novel. Emphasises the importance of the impact of translation on the development of the Gothic novel. Uses a variety of critical perspectives to reassess the work of authors such as Clara Reeve, Sophia Lee, Charlotte Smith, Ann Radcliffe, Matthew Lewis, Charles Maturin, Coleridge, Mary Shelley, Jan Potocki, Balzac, Dostoevesky, Gaston Leroux and Djuna Barnes. Offers a fresh way of thinking about Gothic lineages and histories.

Table of contents

• Front matter
• Contents
• List of illustrations
• Notes on the contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Translation in distress: cultural misappropriation and the construction of the Gothic
• European disruptions of the idealized woman: Matthew Lewis’s The Monk and the Marquis de Sade’s La Nouvelle Justine
• Diderot and Maturin: Enlightenment, automata, and the theatre of terror
• Verging on the Gothic: Melmoth’s journey to France
• Europhobia: the Catholic other in Horace Walpole and Charles Maturin
• European Gothic and nineteenth-century Russian literature
• The robbers and the police: British romantic drama and the Gothic treacheries of Coleridge’s Remorse
• Translating Mary Shelley’s Valperga into English: historical romance, biography or Gothic fiction?
• ‘Hallelujah to your dying screams of torture’: representations of ritual violence in English and Spanish Romanticism
• Potocki’s Gothic Arabesque: embedded narrative and the treatment of boundaries in The Manuscript Found in Saragossa (1797-1815)
• The Gothic crosses the Channel: abjection and revelation in Le Fantôme de l’Opéra
• ‘A detour of filthiness’: French fiction and Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood
• Index