:the politics and aesthetics of fear in the age of the reign of terror
/ Joseph Crawford
London. New Delhi. New york. Sydney
: Bloomsbury Academic
, 2015.
xiv, 217 paper.
Language: انگلیسی
Print
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- IntroductionChapter 1: Terror Before TerrorismChapter 2: The Reign of TerrorChapter 3: The Secret Masters Walk Amongst UsChapter 4: Popular Gothic Chapter 5: The Gothic LegacyEpilogue: The Wars on TerrorBibliographyIndex.
"This book examines the connections between the growth of'terror fiction' - the genre now known as 'Gothic' - in the late eighteenth century, and the simultaneous appearance of the conceptual origins of'terrorism' as a category of political action. In the 1790s, Crawford argues, four inter-connected bodies of writing arose in Britain: the historical mythology of the French Revolution, the political rhetoric of 'terrorism', the genre ofpolitical conspiracy theory, and the literary genre of Gothic fiction, known atthe time as 'terrorist novel writing'. All four bodies of writing drew heavily upon one another, in order to articulate their shared sense of the radical and monstrous otherness of the extremes of human evil, a sense which was quite newto the eighteenth century, but has remained central to the ways in which wehave thought and written about evil and violence ever since"--Provided by publisher.
Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English--History and criticism
English literature--18th century--History and criticism