Social reform in Gothic writing : fantastic forms of change, 1764-1834 /
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Social reform in Gothic writing : fantastic forms of change, 1764-1834 /

"Breaking with traditional analyses of Gothic literature that limit its influence to a reactive critique of current events, Social Reform in Gothic Writing argues for a new political reading of Gothic writing from England, America, and colonial Jamaica - one that recognizes the transformative p...

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Main Author: Ledoux, Ellen Malenas, 1975-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Fantastic Forms of Change
  • 1. Emergent Forms: Horace Walpole, Politics, and the Eighteenth-Century Reader
  • 2. A Castle of One's Own: The Architecture of Emerging Feminism in Works by Charlotte Smith, Ann Radcliffe, Eliza Fenwick, Joanna Baillie, and Sarah Wilkinson
  • 3. Transmuting the Baser Metals: The Post-Revolutionary Audience, Political Economy, and Gothic Forms in Godwin's St. Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century
  • 4. 'Schemes of Reformation': Institutionalized Healthcare in Charles Brockden Brown's Arthur Mervyn
  • 5. Reforming Genres: Negotiating the Politics of Slavery in the Works of Matthew Lewis.