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PublisherCambridge University Press

ISBN-100521773288

ISBN-139780521773287

eBay Product ID (ePID)1705792

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Number of Pages274 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameRomanticism and the Gothic : Genre, Reception, and Canon Formation

SubjectGeneral, Poetry, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Publication Year2000

TypeTextbook

AuthorMichael Gamer

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism

SeriesCambridge Studies in Romanticism Ser.

FormatHardcover

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Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight20.2 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN99-059886

Dewey Edition21

Reviews"An exemplary historicist account of the troubled formations of "Romantic" authorship....a lucid and persuasive work that brings real illumination to the murky origins of the Romantic ideology." Nineteenth Century Literature, ’... Gamer's study is a highly interesting and thought-provoking piece of scholarship.’Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 'â€¦ this is a lucid and persuasive work that brings real illumination to the murky origins of the Romantic ideology.' The Nineteenth Century, "Each chapter demonstrates again Gamer's solid grasp of the material nature of literary production and deserves close reading by students of both gothicism and romanticism...His careful scholarship and clear line of argument will undoubtedly inform continuing work on the subject." Romanticism on the Net, '... Gamer's study is a highly interesting and thought-provoking piece of scholarship.'Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, '... this is a lucid and persuasive work that brings real illumination to the murky origins of the Romantic ideology.' The Nineteenth Century, An impressive first book. [,,.] Gamer writes wonderfully about Lyrical Ballads. Eighteenth-Century Studies|9780521773287|, '... Gamer's study is a highly interesting and thought-provoking piece of scholarship.' Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 'His careful scholarship and clear line of argument will undoubtedly inform continuing work on the subject.' Romanticism on the Net, 'â€¦ Gamer's study is a highly interesting and thought-provoking piece of scholarship.' Zeitschrift fr Anglistik und Amerikanistik, '... this is a lucid and persuasive work that brings real illumination to the murky origins of the Romantic ideology.'The Nineteenth Century, "Gamer's book...makes a real contribution to our thinking about questions that have seldom been asked before." Romantic Circles, "Michael Gamer's astute monograph has not only given a convincing historical account of how the prior existence of the gothic as a genre affected three important writers at the beginning of the nineteenth century, but has done so in a way that suggests the more general value of his methods." Studies in Romanticism

Series Volume NumberSeries Number 40

Dewey Decimal820.9145

Table Of ContentAcknowledgments; List of abbreviations; A note on the text; Introduction: Romanticism's 'pageantry of fear'; 1. Gothic, reception and production; 2. Gothic and its contexts; 3. 'Gross and violent stimulants': producing Lyrical Ballads 1798 and 1800; 4. National supernaturalism: Joanna Baillie, Germany, and the Gothic drama; 5. 'To foist thy stale romance': Scott, antiquarianism, and authorship; Notes; Index.

SynopsisThis is the first full-length study to examine the links between high Romantic literature and what has often been thought of as a merely popular genre - the Gothic. Michael Gamer offers a sharply focused analysis of how and why Romantic writers drew on Gothic conventions whilst, at the same time, denying their influence in order to claim critical respectability. He shows how the reception of Gothic literature, including its institutional and commercial recognition as a form of literature, played a fundamental role in the development of Romanticism as an ideology. In doing so he examines the early history of the Romantic movement and its assumptions about literary value, and the politics of reading, writing and reception at the end of the eighteenth century. As a whole the book makes an original contribution to our understanding of genre, tracing the impact of reception, marketing and audience on its formation., This is the first full-length study to examine the links between high Romantic literature and what has often been thought of as a merely popular genre - the Gothic. Michael Gamer analyses how and why Romantic writers drew on Gothic conventions whilst denying their influence in order to claim critical respectability., This is the first full-length study to examine the links between high Romantic literature and what has often been thought of as a merely popular genre--the Gothic. Michael Gamer analyzes how and why Romantic writers drew on Gothic conventions while, at the same time, denying their influence in order to claim critical respectability. He shows how the reception of Gothic literature played a fundamental role in the development of Romanticism as an ideology, tracing the politics of reading, writing and reception at the end of the eighteenth century.

LC Classification NumberPR448.G6 G36 2000