European Gothic A spirited exchange

by Horner, Avril

• ISBN13: 9780719060649
• ISBN10: 0719060648
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-08-29
• Publisher: MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS

Summary

European Gothic: A Spirited Exchange 1760-1960sets out to challenge the tyranny of the Anglo-American narratives that have dominated critical histories of the Gothic so far. It argues that the Gothic novel did not simply derive fromThe Castle of Otranto, but that it has been forged in the crucible of translation. Focussing on Gothic writing in English, French, German, Russian and Spanish, the collection charts a rich process of cross-fertilization and, in particular, examines the importance of Anglo-French exchanges in the development of the Gothic novel within Europe and, subsequently, the US.

Author Biography

Avril Horner is Professor of English and Director of the European Studies Research Institute at the University of Salford.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	vii
Notes on the contributors	ix
Acknowledgements	xii
Introduction	1	(16)
Avril Horner
Translation in distress: cultural misappropriation and the construction of the Gothic	17	(22)
Terry Hale
European disruptions of the idealized woman: Matthew Lewis's The Monk and the Marquis de Sade's La Nouvelle Justine	39	(16)
Angela Wright
Diderot and Maturin: Enlightenment, automata, and the theatre of terror	55	(16)
Victor Sage
Verging on the Gothic: Melmoth's journey to France	71	(13)
Catherine Lanone
Europhobia: the Catholic other in Horace Walpole and Charles Maturin	84	(20)
Robert Miles
European Gothic and nineteenth-century Russian literature	104	(24)
Neil Cornwell
The robbers and the police: British romantic drama and the Gothic treacheries of Coleridge's Remorse	128	(19)
Peter Mortensen
Translating Mary Shelly's Valperga into English: historical romance, biography or Gothic fiction?	147	(14)
John Williams
`Hallelujah to your dying screams of torture': representations of ritual violence in English and Spanish romanticism	161	(22)
Joan Curbet
Potocki's Gothic Arabesque: embedded narrative and the treatment of boundaries in The Manuscript Found in Saragossa (1797--1815)	183	(21)
Ahlam Alaki
The Gothic crosses the Channel: abjection and revelation in Le Fantome de l'Opera	204	(26)
Jerrold E. Hogle
`A detour of filthiness': French fiction and Djuna Barnes's Nightwood	230	(22)
Avril Horner
Index	252