Shakespearean Gothic by Christy Desmet
This collection of essays explores the thesis that Shakespeare as we know him today was born in the eighteenth century, at the same time as the Gothic tradition, first named by Horace Walpole in 1764. The two are inextricable. Writers interested in pursuing 'Gothic' themes and forms (the supernatural events and generic hybrids decried by French neoclassicism) justified their aesthetic choices as following the example of their great - and emphatically English - precursor. They cited him in their epigraphs and appropriated his narratives. They echoed his language and imitated his dramatic devices. Like Shakespeare, they explored the ways in which familial ghosts may haunt the present. Like him, they mixed modes and genres: tragedy and comedy, verse and prose. Together, critics of Shakespeare and creators of the Gothic (often one and the same author) not only canonized England's secular saint and created a new literary mode; they collectively initiated a mode of subjectivity that remains with us today in both high and popular culture.-
History of the Gothic: American Gothic
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History of the Gothic: Gothic Literature 1764-1824
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The Queer Uncanny
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History of the Gothic: Gothic Literature 1825-1914
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Welsh Gothic
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Queer Others in Victorian Gothic
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History of the Gothic: Twentieth-Century Gothic
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Romantic Medicine and the Gothic Imagination
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Theological Monsters
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Postcolonial Gothic Fictions from the Caribbean, Canada, Australia and New Zealand
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The Gothic Ideology
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Metamodern Gothic
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Women's Authorship and the Early Gothic
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Gothic Literary Travel and Tourism
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Servants and the Gothic, 1764-1831
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American Gothic Art and Architecture in the Age of Romantic Literature
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The Gothic and the Carnivalesque in American Culture
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South African Gothic
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Gothic Utterance
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Women's Ghost Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain
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Posthuman Gothic
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Wilkie Collins, Medicine and the Gothic
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Body Gothic
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The Twilight of the Gothic?
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The Fantastic and European Gothic
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Gothic Invasions
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Stephen King's Gothic
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The Gothic and Catholicism
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Republicanism and the American Gothic
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George Eliot and the Gothic Novel
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Gothic Chapbooks, Bluebooks and Shilling Shockers, 1797-1830
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Gothic Metaphysics
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The Nature of the Beast
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Gothic Contemporaries
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Gothic Remains
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The Brontës as Gothic Writers
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The Gothic at War
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Gothic Metis
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Gothic Precarity
"This book offers many fresh ways of reading both Shakespeare's plays and the more entrenched Gothic novels"Sarah Pike, University of Stirling website
Christy Desmet is associate professor of English at the University of Georgia. Anne Williams is professor of English at the University of Georgia.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780708320921 |
| ISBN 10 | 0708320929 |
| Title | Shakespearean Gothic |
| Author | Christy Desmet |
| Series | Gothic Literary Studies |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of Wales Press |
| Year published | 2009-10-01 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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