Romanticism and the Gothic: Genre, Reception, and Canon Formation

This is the first full-length study to examine the links between high Romantic literature and what has often been thought of as a merely popular genre--the Gothic. Michael Gamer analyzes how and why Romantic writers drew on Gothic conventions while, at the same time, denying their influence in order to claim critical respectability. He shows how the reception of Gothic literature played a fundamental role in the development of Romanticism as an ideology, tracing the politics of reading, writing and reception at the end of the eighteenth century.

Author: Michael Gamer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 09/04/2000
Pages: 274
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780521773287

Review Citation(s):
Choice 03/01/2001 pg. 1269