Gothic Radicalism: Literature, Philosophy and Psychoanalysis in the Nineteenth Century

ISBN-13: 9780312230425 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 188 str.

Andrew Smith

Opis

Andrew Smith reconsiders the relationship between the nineteenth-century Gothic, theories of the sublime and Freudian psychoanalysis, showing how the Gothic of the period produces a radical critique of these ideas as it forms its own version of sublimity and the unconscious.

Spis treści

Preface Acknowledgements Introduction The Gothic and the Sublime Frankenstein : Sublimity Reconsidered, Foucault and Kristeva History and the Sublime Sublime Utterance: Gothic Voyages, Going Public with the Private The Urban Sublime: Kant and Poe Textuality and Sublimity in Dracula Freud's Uncanny Sublime Afterword Notes Index

O autorze

Andrew Smith is Lecturer in English Studies at the University of Glamorgarr.