Gothic Radicalism: Literature, Philosophy and Psychoanalysis in the Nineteenth Century

Smith, A.

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2000-09-29

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781349413799

DOI: 10.1057/9780230598706

Dimensions: 216.0cm x140.0cm

Pages: 188.0