The Gothic Novel in Ireland, c. 17601829 by Christina Morin - 9780719099175

Name: The Gothic Novel in Ireland, c. 17601829 by Christina Morin - 9780719099175
Brand: Manchester University Press

Manchester University Press

The Gothic Novel in Ireland, c. 17601829Author(s): Christina Morin\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Manchester University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Manchester University Press\nISBN-13: 9780719099175, 978-0719099175\nSynopsis\nThe gothic novel in Ireland, c. [tel] offers a compelling account of the development of gothic literature in late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century Ireland. Countering traditional scholarly views of the rise of the gothic novel on the one hand, and, on the other, Irish Romantic literature, this study persuasively re-integrates a body of now overlooked works into the history of the literary gothic as it emerged across Ireland, Britain, and Europe between 1760 and 1829. Its twinned quantitative and qualitative analysis of neglected Irish texts produces a new formal, generic, and ideological map of gothic literary production in this period, persuasively positioning Irish works and authors at the centre of a new critical paradigm with which to understand b.