The Fantastic and European Gothic
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The Fantastic and European Gothic

History, Literature and the French Revolution

  1. English
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  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Fantastic and European Gothic

History, Literature and the French Revolution

About this book

This iconoclastic book challenges and changes accepted opinions about the Gothic novel, and will introduce the British and American Reader to works hitherto unknown to them, but rivals in quality to the works of writers like Radcliffe, Lewis and Stoker.

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Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgements
  2. Introduction
  3. Fantasy and Counter-Revolution in the Theory and Fiction of Charles Nodier
  4. History and Politics in the Fantastic Fiction of Hoffmann,and his Reception in France
  5. The Double Life of the Artist in the Récits fantastiques of Théophile Gautier, and the Rejection of Bourgeois Life under the July Monarchy
  6. ‘A Life in Death a Death in Life’: the Legitimist Novels of Paul FĂ©val and the Catastrophe of the Second Empire
  7. Paul FĂ©val’s Le Chevalier TĂ©nĂšbre and Le Fanu’s ‘The Room in the Dragon Volant’: the Failures of the Bourbon Restoration
  8. Robert Louis Stevenson’s ‘Olalla’, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and the Refutation of Utilitarian Morality
  9. Conclusion
  10. Notes
  11. Short Chronology of Relevant Events
  12. Bibliography
  13. Index