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Showing how the Gothic can be read as a complex reaction to Enlightenment methods of historical representation, Sinister histories uncovers hitherto neglected relationships between Gothic texts and prominent works of eighteenth-century history.

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Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction: history and the Gothic in the eighteenth century
1. Contested pasts: David Hume, Horace Walpole and the emergence of Gothic fiction
2. '[B]ringing this deed of darkness to light': representations of the past in Clara Reeve's The Old English Baron (1778)
3. 'Entombed alive': Sophia Lee's The Recess (1783-85), the Gothic and history
4. '[E]very nerve thrilled with horror': the French Revolution, the past and Ann Radcliffe's The Romance of the Forest (1791)
5. 'Things as they are': William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft and the perils of the present
References
Index

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: 6/21/2016 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780719095979, 978-0719095979
      ISBN10: 0719095972

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Showing how the Gothic can be read as a complex reaction to Enlightenment methods of historical representation, Sinister histories uncovers hitherto neglected relationships between Gothic texts and prominent works of eighteenth-century history.

      Table of Contents

      Acknowledgements
      Abbreviations
      Introduction: history and the Gothic in the eighteenth century
      1. Contested pasts: David Hume, Horace Walpole and the emergence of Gothic fiction
      2. '[B]ringing this deed of darkness to light': representations of the past in Clara Reeve's The Old English Baron (1778)
      3. 'Entombed alive': Sophia Lee's The Recess (1783-85), the Gothic and history
      4. '[E]very nerve thrilled with horror': the French Revolution, the past and Ann Radcliffe's The Romance of the Forest (1791)
      5. 'Things as they are': William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft and the perils of the present
      References
      Index

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