Gothic Radicalism

Download or read book Gothic Radicalism written by A. Smith and published by Springer. This book was released on 2000-06-05 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Applying ideas drawn from contemporary critical theory this book historicizes psychoanalysis through a new, and significant, theorization of the Gothic. The central premise is that the nineteenth-century Gothic produced a radical critique of accounts of sublimity and Freudian psychoanalysis. This book makes a major contribution to an understanding of both the nineteenth century and the Gothic discourse which challenged the dominant ideas of that period. Writers explored include Mary Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson and Bram Stoker.