Research Catalog

Title

Gothic Renaissance : a reassessment / edited by Elisabeth Bronfen and Beate Neumeier.

Publication

Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2014.

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Additional Authors

• Bronfen, Elisabeth.
• Neumeier, Beate.

Description

xi, 272 p.; 25 cm

Summary

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.

Subject

• English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism
• Gothic revival (Literature) > Great Britain

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JFE 14-6507

ISBN

• 9780719088636
• 0719088631

OCLC

875151707

Title

Gothic Renaissance : a reassessment / edited by Elisabeth Bronfen and Beate Neumeier.

Imprint

Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2014.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Bronfen, Elisabeth.

Neumeier, Beate.

Research Call Number

JFE 14-6507