Beschreibung:
Social Reform in Gothic Writing provides a transatlantic view of the politically transformative power that Gothic texts effected during the Revolutionary era (1764-1834) through providing fresh readings of canonical and non-canonical writing in a wide variety of genres.
Social Reform in Gothic Writing provides a transatlantic view of the politically transformative power that Gothic texts effected during the Revolutionary era (1764-1834) through providing fresh readings of canonical and non-canonical writing in a wide variety of genres.
1. Introduction: Fantastic Forms of Change 2. Emergent Forms: Horace Walpole, Politics, and the Eighteenth-Century Reader 3. A Castle of One's Own: The Architecture of Emerging Feminism 4. Transmuting the Baser Metals: The Post-Revolutionary Audience, Political Economy, and Gothic Forms in Godwin's St. Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century 5. 'Schemes of Reformation': Institutionalized Healthcare in Charles Brockden Brown's Arthur Mervyn 6. Re-forming Genres: Negotiating Slavery in the Works of Matthew Lewis Bibliography Index