Britain, France and the Gothic, 1764–1820 The Import of Terror Wright Hardback

Britain, France and the Gothic, 17641820The Import of Terror\nAuthor(s): Angela Wright\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781107034068, 978-1107034068\nSynopsis\nIn describing his proto-Gothic fiction, The Castle of Otranto [tel], as a translation, Horace Walpole was deliberately playing on national anxieties concerning the importation of war, fashion and literature from France in the aftermath of the Seven Years' War. In the last decade of the eighteenth century, as Britain went to war again with France, this time in the wake of revolution, the continuing connections between Gothic literature and France through the realms of translation, adaptation and unacknowledged borrowing led to strong suspicions of Gothic literature taking on a subversive role in diminishing British patriotism. Angela Wright explores the development of Gothic literature in Britain in the context of the fraught relationship be.