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.
Format: Paperback / softback
CONTRIBUTORS: A. Smith
EAN: 9781349413799
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
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WEIGHT: 454 g
HEIGHT: 216 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Palgrave Macmillan
DATE PUBLISHED: 2000-09-29
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GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, PSYCHOLOGY / Movements / Psychoanalysis, SCIENCE / History
WIDTH: 140 cm
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Book Themes:
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, History of ideas, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology
Andrew Smith is Lecturer in English Studies at the University of Glamorgarr.
