Book 2010

The psychopathology of the Gothic romance

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Publisher: McFarland & Co., Publishers
Language: English
Published: 2010

Psychoses in literature
Psychoanalysis and literature
History and criticism
Neuroses in literature
Deviant behavior in literature

"This book uses clinical psychoanalytic theory to illustrate how early British Gothic fiction reveals undercurrents of psychopathological behavior. Chapters consider the division of the Gothic novel; how early British Gothic romance parallels Freud's notion; the genre's origins in Walpole's The Castle of Otranto; sexual differentiation; Ann Radcliffe; Matthew Lewis; and the confusion between self and other"--Provided by publisher.