Revolution, Empire, and the Gothic Dream
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This monograph examines the centrality of dreams in early British Gothic novels and the significant transformations of the Gothic dream later in Victorian novels and ultimately in Caribbean novels. The Gothic arises at a time when Enlightenment philosophy and medical science are making dreams and nightmares exclusively internal phenomena, relegating them solely to the realm of the individual. This monograph argues that the Gothic counters this movement by reimagining dreams as social and political phenomena. They subsequently play vital roles in cultural responsesto the profound questions of the eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries—namely, those concerning historiography, revolution, slavery, and empire. What we see is a vacillation between the sublime and the monstrous that reveals anxieties about British claims of progress and liberty. In the process, the Gothic dream comes to be a liminal space for the dramatisation of imperial fantasies and prophetic nightmares. In the twentieth century, postcolonial writers adapt the Gothic dream to subvert the teleology of imperialism.
Richard W. Moore Jr. received his Ph.D. in English from Fordham University in May 2018. He is currently teaching in the English department in the College of Mount Saint Vincent in the Bronx, New York.
Introduction: Gothic Dream as Social and Political Phenomenon;
Chapter
1––Gothic Foresight: Prophecy and Stability in Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto and Clara Reeve’s The Old English Baron; Chapter
2––Apocalyptic Gothic: Monstrous Dreams and Sublime Violence in Matthew G.
Lewis’s The Monk;
Chapter
3––Awakening from the Imperial Dream/Nightmare in Charlotte Dacre’s Zofloya; Or, The Moor and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus;
Chapter 4–– ‘Do
you accept my solution of the mystery?’: Liminal Encounters in the Victorian
Novel; Chapter 5––Castles Made of Sand: Insular Dreams and Nightmares in
the 20th and 21st Centuries; Conclusion: Gothic Dreaming in the Future
Erscheinungsdatum | 21.07.2022 |
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Reihe/Serie | Anthem Studies in Gothic Literature |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 153 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 454 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 1-83998-674-3 / 1839986743 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-83998-674-1 / 9781839986741 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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