Gothic radicalism

Smith Andrew R.

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Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke

2000

188 Pages

ISBN 978-1-349-41379-9

Gothic radicalism

literature, philosophy and psychoanalysis in the nineteenth century

Andrew R. Smith

Applying ideas drawn from contemporary critical theory this book historicizes psychoanalysis through a new, and significant, theorization of the Gothic. The central premise is that the nineteenth-century Gothic produced a radical critique of accounts of sublimity and Freudian psychoanalysis. This book makes a major contribution to an understanding of both the nineteenth century and the Gothic discourse which challenged the dominant ideas of that period. Writers explored include Mary Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson and Bram Stoker.

Publication details

DOI: 10.1057/9780230598706

Full citation:

Smith, A. R. (2000). Gothic radicalism: literature, philosophy and psychoanalysis in the nineteenth century, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Smith Andrew R.

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