Writing the past, writing the future : time and narrative in gothic and sensation fiction /

This book links popular British fiction from the 1790s through the 1860s to anxieties about time. The cataclysm of the French Revolution, discoveries in geology, biology, and astronomy that greatly expanded the age and size of the universe, and technological developments such as the railway and the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Albright, Richard S., 1951-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bethlehem [Pa.] : Lehigh University Press, ©2009.
Temas:
Geschichte 1790- 1860.
Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English > History and criticism.
Time in literature.
Narration (Rhetoric) > History.
Sensationalism in literature.
Temps dans la littérature.
Narration > Histoire.
Sensationnalisme dans la littérature.
Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English
Narration (Rhetoric)
Sensationalism in literature
Time in literature
Schauerroman
Sensationsroman
Zeit > Motiv
Erzähltechnik
Großbritannien
Englisch.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • No time like the present : The mysteries of Udolpho
  • The clock is ticking : Melmoth the wanderer
  • Transcending time : Mary Shelley and the power of narrative
  • Aporia in the house : three sensation novels.

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