Gothic Radicalism: Literature, Philosophy and Psychoanalysis in the Nineteenth Century - Rilegato

Smith, A.

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0333760352 ISBN 13: 9780333760352

Casa editrice: SPRINGER NATURE, 2000

Riassunto

Applying ideas drawn from contemporary critical theory this book historicizes psychoanalysis through a new, and significant, theorization of the Gothic. The central premise is that the nineteenth-century Gothic produced a radical critique of accounts of sublimity and Freudian psychoanalysis. This book makes a major contribution to an understanding of both the nineteenth century and the Gothic discourse which challenged the dominant ideas of that period. Writers explored include Mary Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson and Bram Stoker.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Andrew Smith is Lecturer in English Studies at the University of Glamorgarr.

Contenuti:

Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
The Gothic and the Sublime
Frankenstein: Sublimity Reconsidered, Foucault and Kristeva
History and the Sublime
Sublime Utterance: Gothic Voyages, Going Public with the Private
The Urban Sublime: Kant and Poe
Textuality and Sublimity in Dracula
Freud's Uncanny Sublime
Afterword
Notes
Index

Su questa edizione

• Editore: SPRINGER NATURE
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0333760352
• ISBN 13: 9780333760352
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 188