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This text is a scholarly and critical edition of significant novels of Gothic fiction from the Romantic period. It aims to broaden understanding of the diversity of female writers to new forms of the novel; to social criticism during the French Revolution debate and its aftermath; and to new models of social identity and relations during the formation of Romantic nationalsim and the modern liberal state. The form of female gothic romance first achieved controversial prominence in the late 18th and early 19th century. It evolved through the 19th and into the late 20th century in works ranging from the high literary novels of the Bronte sisters to the popular gothic romances and "sensational novels" of mass print.
This text offers scholarly and critical editions of significant novels of Gothic fiction from the Romantic period. It aims to broaden understanding of the diversity of female writers to new forms of the novel; to social criticism during the French Revolution debate and its aftermath; and to new models of social identity and relations during the formation of Romantic nationalsim and the modern liberal state. The form of female gothic romance first achieved controversial prominence in the late 18th and early 19th century. It evolved through the 19th and into the late 20th century in works ranging from the high literary novels of the Bronte sisters to the popular gothic romances and "sensational novels" of mass print. This book illustrates the various forms of female gothic literature as a vehicle for representing the modern forms of subjectivity, or complex and authentic inward experience and identity.
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