 I do not think there is any doubt that the popularity of Gothic fiction in the 1790s and well into the nineteenth century was due in part to the widespread anxieties and fears in Europe aroused by the turmoil in France finding a kind of sublimation or...  Rewriting the Politicaledited by - 2000 - 81 pagesNo preview available - About this book
 | H. B. Nisbet, Claude Rawson - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 978 pages
...current events in France. Ronald Paulson contends that the popularity of Gothic fiction in the 1790s 'was due in part to the widespread anxieties and fears...in tales of darkness, confusion, blood and horror' (Representations, pp. 210-1). In the preface to her final novel, Memoirs of Sir Roger de Clarendon... | |
 | Elizabeth Durot-Boucé - English fiction - 2004 - 292 pages
...en France : « I do not think there is any doubt that the popularity of Gothic fiction in the 1 790s and well into the nineteenth century was due in part...in tales of darkness, confusion, blood, and horror. »24 Le gothique a également une fonction ludique : jouer à avoir peur par littérature interposée,... | |
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