The fantastic and European Gothic : history, literature and the French Revolution /
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| Author / Creator: | Gibson, Matthew. |
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| Imprint: | Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2013. |
| Description: | 243 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Gothic literary studies Gothic literary studies. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9116340 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. Fantasy and Counter-Revolution in the Theory and Fiction of Charles Nodier
- 2. History and Politics in the Fantastic Fiction of Hoffmann, and his Reception in France
- 3. The Double Life of the Artist in the Récits fantastiques of Théophile Gautier, and the Rejection of Bourgeois Life under the July Monarchy
- 4. 'A Life in Death a Death in Life': the Legitimist Novels of Paul Féval and the Catastrophe of the Second Empire
- 5. Paul Féval's Le Chevalier Ténèbre and Le Fanu's 'The Room in the Dragon Volant': the Failures of the Bourbon Restoration
- 6. Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Olalla', The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and the Refutation of Utilitarian Morality
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Short Chronology of Relevant Events
- BIbliography
- Index
