{"product_id":"the-gothic-text-9780804739122","title":"THE GOTHIC TEXT","description":"\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\n\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":"Marshall Brown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48291749036283,"sku":"9780804739122","price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/the-gothic-text-9780804739122","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}