{"product_id":"sinister-histories-gothic-novels-and-representations-of-the-past-from-horace-walpole-to-mary-wollstonecraft-9780719095979","title":"Sinister Histories Gothic Novels and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShowing how the Gothic can be read as a complex reaction to Enlightenment methods of historical representation, \u003ci\u003eSinister histories\u003c\/i\u003e uncovers hitherto neglected relationships between Gothic texts and prominent works of eighteenth-century history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003eAbbreviations\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: history and the Gothic in the eighteenth century\u003cbr\u003e1. Contested pasts: David Hume, Horace Walpole and the emergence of Gothic fiction\u003cbr\u003e2. '[B]ringing this deed of darkness to light': representations of the past in Clara Reeve's \u003ci\u003eThe Old English Baron\u003c\/i\u003e (1778)\u003cbr\u003e3. 'Entombed alive': Sophia Lee's \u003ci\u003eThe Recess\u003c\/i\u003e (1783-85), the Gothic and history\u003cbr\u003e4. '[E]very nerve thrilled with horror': the French Revolution, the past and Ann Radcliffe's \u003ci\u003eThe Romance of the Forest\u003c\/i\u003e (1791)\u003cbr\u003e5. 'Things as they are': William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft and the perils of the present\t\u003cbr\u003eReferences\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037352264023,"sku":"9780719095979","price":76.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/sinister-histories-gothic-novels-and-representations-of-the-past-from-horace-walpole-to-mary-wollstonecraft-9780719095979","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}