{"product_id":"the-gothic-text-9780804739122","title":"The Gothic Text","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Marshall Brown\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Gothic \u0026amp; Romance\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRomantic gothic fiction is not exciting. Gothic novels are not ghost stories. Gothic novels are not women's writing.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOpening with these three theses, \u003ci\u003eThe Gothic Text\u003c\/i\u003e undertakes a fresh approach to a much-studied mode. Marshall Brown combines the teleological approach to literary history developed in his \u003ci\u003ePreromanticism\u003c\/i\u003e with a European perspective on the one truly international literary form of its era. New insights into literary history and the history of ideas provide a framework for innovative close readings--of Horace Walpole's \u003ci\u003eThe Castle of Otranto\u003c\/i\u003e, Ann Radcliffe's \u003ci\u003eThe Italian\u003c\/i\u003e, and Mary Shelley's \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/i\u003e, among others--that approach classics of the genre from unusual angles. The book also provides a thoroughly researched account of German romantic psychology as it developed out of Kant's idealist philosophy into a gothic sensibility. Accessibly written and argued in careful, lively detail, \u003ci\u003eThe Gothic Text\u003c\/i\u003e gives many new impulses to the study of romanticism, nineteenth-century fiction, and the origins of psychoanalysis.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47587633365143,"sku":"9780804739122","price":14093.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780804739122.webp?v=1774966899","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-gothic-text-9780804739122","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}