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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
September 2009
Print publication year:
2000
Online ISBN:
9780511484216
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511484216
Subjects:
Literature, English Literature 1700-1830
Series:
Cambridge Studies in Romanticism (40)
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Book description

This is the first full-length study to examine the links between high Romantic literature and what has often been thought of as a merely popular genre - the Gothic. Michael Gamer offers a sharply focused analysis of how and why Romantic writers drew on Gothic conventions whilst, at the same time, denying their influence in order to claim critical respectability. He shows how the reception of Gothic literature, including its institutional and commercial recognition as a form of literature, played a fundamental role in the development of Romanticism as an ideology. In doing so he examines the early history of the Romantic movement and its assumptions about literary value, and the politics of reading, writing and reception at the end of the eighteenth century. As a whole the book makes an original contribution to our understanding of genre, tracing the impact of reception, marketing and audience on its formation.

Reviews

‘… this is a lucid and persuasive work that brings real illumination to the murky origins of the Romantic ideology.’

Source: The Nineteenth Century

‘His careful scholarship and clear line of argument will undoubtedly inform continuing work on the subject.’

Source: Romanticism on the Net

’… Gamer's study is a highly interesting and thought-provoking piece of scholarship.’

Source: Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik

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