196 Pages
by
Routledge
196 Pages
by
Routledge
196 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1986, The Coherence of Gothic Conventions makes the case that the Gothic in English literature has been marked by a distinctive and highly influential set of ambitions about relations of meaning. Through readings of classic Gothic authors as well as of De Quincey and the Brontës, Sedgwick links the most characteristic thematic conventions of the Gothic firmly and usably to... Read more
Acknowledgements Preface Introduction 1. The Structure of Gothic Conventions 2. Language as Live Burial: Thomas de Quincey 3. Immediacy, Doubleness, and the Unspeakable: Wuthering Heights and Villette 4. The Character in the Veil: Imagery of the Surface in the Gothic Novel
Biography
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
