Gothic fiction and the invention of terrorism : the politics and aesthetics of fear in the age of the reign of terror / Joseph Crawford.
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Crawford, Joseph, 1982- (författare)
- ISBN 9781472505286
- Publicerad: New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013
- Engelska 217 p.
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- Machine generated contents note: -- IntroductionChapter 1: Terror Before TerrorismChapter 2: The Reign of TerrorChapter 3: The Secret Masters Walk Amongst UsChapter 4: Popular Gothic Chapter 5: The Gothic LegacyEpilogue: The Wars on TerrorBibliographyIndex.
- "This book examines the connections between the growth of'terror fiction' - the genre now known as 'Gothic' - in the late eighteenth century, and the simultaneous appearance of the conceptual origins of'terrorism' as a category of political action. In the 1790s, Crawford argues, four inter-connected bodies of writing arose in Britain: the historical mythology of the French Revolution, the political rhetoric of 'terrorism', the genre ofpolitical conspiracy theory, and the literary genre of Gothic fiction, known atthe time as 'terrorist novel writing'. All four bodies of writing drew heavily upon one another, in order to articulate their shared sense of the radical and monstrous otherness of the extremes of human evil, a sense which was quite newto the eighteenth century, but has remained central to the ways in which wehave thought and written about evil and violence ever since"--
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- Skräck i litteraturen (sao)
- Den andre (filosofi) i litteraturen (sao)
- Engelska gotiska berättelser (sao)
- Engelsk litteratur -- historia (sao)
- Fear in literature. (LCSH)
- Other (Philosophy) in literature. (LCSH)
- Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English -- History and criticism. (LCSH)
- English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism. (LCSH)
- LITERARY CRITICISM / General. (bisacsh)
- Horror in literature (LCSH)
- Other (Philosophy) in literature (LCSH)
- Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English (lcsh)
- 1800-talet (sao)
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- PR830.T3 (LCC)
- 823.0872909 (DDC)
- LIT000000 (bisacsh)
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