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Book SynopsisThis is the first full-length study to examine the links between high Romantic literature and what has often been thought of as a merely popular genre - the Gothic. Michael Gamer analyses how and why Romantic writers drew on Gothic conventions whilst denying their influence in order to claim critical respectability.
Trade Review'… this is a lucid and persuasive work that brings real illumination to the murky origins of the Romantic ideology.' The Nineteenth Century
'His careful scholarship and clear line of argument will undoubtedly inform continuing work on the subject.' Romanticism on the Net
'… Gamer's study is a highly interesting and thought-provoking piece of scholarship.' Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments; List of abbreviations; A note on the text; Introduction: Romanticism's 'pageantry of fear'; 1. Gothic, reception and production; 2. Gothic and its contexts; 3. 'Gross and violent stimulants': producing Lyrical Ballads 1798 and 1800; 4. National supernaturalism: Joanna Baillie, Germany, and the Gothic drama; 5. 'To foist thy stale romance': Scott, antiquarianism, and authorship; Notes; Index.
