{"product_id":"the-gothic-text-paperback","title":"The Gothic Text - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMarshall Brown\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRomantic gothic fiction is not exciting. Gothic novels are not ghost stories. Gothic novels are not women's writing.\u003c\/i\u003e Opening with these three theses, \u003ci\u003eThe Gothic Text\u003c\/i\u003e undertakes a fresh approach to a much-studied mode. Marshall Brown combines the teleological approach to literary history developed in his \u003ci\u003ePreromanticism\u003c\/i\u003e with a European perspective on the one truly international literary form of its era. New insights into literary history and the history of ideas provide a framework for innovative close readings--of Horace Walpole's \u003ci\u003eThe Castle of Otranto\u003c\/i\u003e, Ann Radcliffe's \u003ci\u003eThe Italian\u003c\/i\u003e, and Mary Shelley's \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/i\u003e, among others--that approach classics of the genre from unusual angles. The book also provides a thoroughly researched account of German romantic psychology as it developed out of Kant's idealist philosophy into a gothic sensibility. Accessibly written and argued in careful, lively detail, \u003ci\u003eThe Gothic Text\u003c\/i\u003e gives many new impulses to the study of romanticism, nineteenth-century fiction, and the origins of psychoanalysis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarshall Brown is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Washington. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eTurning Points\u003c\/i\u003e (Stanford, 1997) and \u003ci\u003ePreromanticism\u003c\/i\u003e (Stanford, 1991).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 306\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 30, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41882848264327,"sku":"9780804739139","price":40.32,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/5d389bcccb4d63afc38eecaa177bb3bd.webp?v=1734080309","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/the-gothic-text-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}