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Auteur(s) : Crawford, Joseph (1982-....)
Titre(s) : Gothic fiction and the invention of terrorism [Texte imprimé] : the politics and aesthetics of fear in the age of the reign of terror / Joseph Crawford
Publication : London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013
Description matérielle : xiv, 217 p. ; 24 cm
Comprend : Introduction ; 1. Terror Before Terrorism ; 2. The Reign of Terror ; 3. The Secret
Masters Walk Amongst Us ; 4. Popular Gothic ; 5. The Gothic Legacy ; Epilogue:
The Wars on Terror.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-210) and index
"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"
Sujet(s) : Roman gothique anglais
Littérature anglaise -- 18e siècle
Peur -- Dans la littérature
Altérité (philosophie) -- Dans la littérature
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781472505286 (hardback). - ISBN 147250528X (hardback). - ISBN 9781472509956
(erroné) (ePDF). - ISBN 1472509951 (erroné) (ePDF). - ISBN 9781472509123 (erroné)
(ePub). - ISBN 1472509129 (erroné) (ePub)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb43666180c
Notice n° :
FRBNF43666180
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)