Gothic Renaissance :
Gothic Renaissance : a reassessment /
edited by Elisabeth Bronfen and Beate Neumeier.
- 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This collection of essays by experts in Renaissance and Gothic studies tracks the lines of connection between Gothic sensibilities and the discursive network of the Renaissance. The texts covered encompass poetry, epic narratives, ghost stories, prose dialogues, political pamphlets and Shakespeare's texts, read alongside those of other playwrights. The authors show that the Gothic sensibility addresses subversive fantasies of transgression, be this in regard to gender (troubling stable notions of masculinity and femininity), in regard to social orders (challenging hegemonic, patriarchal or sovereign power), or in regard to disciplinary discourses (dictating what is deemed licit and what illicit or deviant). They relate these issues back to the early modern period as a moment of transition, in which categories of individual, gendered, racial and national identity began to emerge, and connect the religious and the pictorial turn within early modern textual production to a reassessment of Gothic culture.
9781526111159 1526111152 9781781706893 1781706891
22573/ctt1mfmwx2 JSTOR
GBB7A0395 bnb
018371109 Uk
1500-1700
English literature--History and criticism.--Early modern, 1500-1700
Gothic revival (Literature)--Great Britain.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
English literature--Early modern.
Gothic revival (Literature)
HISTORY / Social History
Great Britain.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PR428
820.9/003
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This collection of essays by experts in Renaissance and Gothic studies tracks the lines of connection between Gothic sensibilities and the discursive network of the Renaissance. The texts covered encompass poetry, epic narratives, ghost stories, prose dialogues, political pamphlets and Shakespeare's texts, read alongside those of other playwrights. The authors show that the Gothic sensibility addresses subversive fantasies of transgression, be this in regard to gender (troubling stable notions of masculinity and femininity), in regard to social orders (challenging hegemonic, patriarchal or sovereign power), or in regard to disciplinary discourses (dictating what is deemed licit and what illicit or deviant). They relate these issues back to the early modern period as a moment of transition, in which categories of individual, gendered, racial and national identity began to emerge, and connect the religious and the pictorial turn within early modern textual production to a reassessment of Gothic culture.
9781526111159 1526111152 9781781706893 1781706891
22573/ctt1mfmwx2 JSTOR
GBB7A0395 bnb
018371109 Uk
1500-1700
English literature--History and criticism.--Early modern, 1500-1700
Gothic revival (Literature)--Great Britain.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
English literature--Early modern.
Gothic revival (Literature)
HISTORY / Social History
Great Britain.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PR428
820.9/003