- Title
- The intensifying vision of evil: the Gothic novel (1764-1820) as a self-contained literary cycle
- Creator
- Letellier, Robert Ignatius
- ThesisAdvisor
- Salamon, Cathy
- ThesisAdvisor
- Haclennan, Don
- Subject
- Gothic revival (Literature)
- Subject
- English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism
- Subject
- English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Date
- 1977
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MA
- Identifier
- vital:2274
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006920
- Identifier
- Gothic revival (Literature)
- Identifier
- English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism
- Identifier
- English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Description
- The purpose of this study is to investigate the Gothic novel, a much neglected and misunderstood school, as a unified literary cycle. Attention has been centred on the domains or sub-systems of the novel where cultural models and generic traits are particularly important and distinguishable: character, plot (with the necessary evocation of a fictional world), theme and symbol. No apology is offered for the many quotations: far too little recourse is made to the texts in most discussions of the Gothic novel and this has all too frequently led to misapprehensions and unfounded generalizations. The opening section places the genre in a historio-literary context, and centres attention on the major novels, while the final section opens additional perspectives on the cycle, suggests the importance of the Gothic school for modern times, and illustrates the inevitability of its central vision of evil.
- Format
- 331 pages, pdf
- Publisher
- Rhodes University, Faculty of Humanities, English
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Letellier, Robert Ignatius
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