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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      22 September 2009
      04 September 2000
      ISBN:
      9780511484216
      9780521773287
      9780521026932
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511484216
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.5kg, 274 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.426kg, 276 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, English Literature 1700-1830
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Romanticism (40)
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    Subjects:
    Literature, English Literature 1700-1830
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Romanticism (40)
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    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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