EAN: 9783039100774

FRENCH AND GERMAN GOTHIC FICTION IN THE LATE EI...

The literature of terror and horror continues to fascinate readers both casual and more
critical  and it has long been recognised as an international  not merely British  phenomenon.
This study provides an in-depth and text-based analysis of Gothic fiction in France and Germany
from earlier literary traditions  through the influence of the English Gothic novel  to an
extraordinary popularity and dominance by the end of the eighteenth century. It examines how
some of the motifs most closely associated with the Gothic - secret societies  the supernatural
and suspense  among others - are the product of an uncertain age  and how the use of those
motifs differed not just across languages and borders  which in fact the Gothic often crossed
with ease  but according to the views  concerns and sometimes insecurities of individual
authors. What emerges is a complex genre more diverse than any 'list of Gothic ingredients'
would have us believe. Many of the notions and devices explored by the French and German Gothic
then continue to intrigue  disturb and unsettle today.

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