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. -- .
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. -- .
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
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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