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Andrew (Ed) Cusack - Popular Revenants: The German Gothic and Its International Reception, 1800-2000 (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture) - 9781571135193 - V9781571135193
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Popular Revenants: The German Gothic and Its International Reception, 1800-2000 (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)

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Description for Popular Revenants: The German Gothic and Its International Reception, 1800-2000 (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture) Hardcover. The German Gothic and Its International Reception, 1800-2000. Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. 318 pages. Editor(s): Cusack, Andrew; Murnane, Barry. The first book in English on the German Gothic in over thirty years, consisting of new essays investigating the internationality of the Gothic mode. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSB; DSK. Dimension: 235 x 162 x 30. Weight: 698.
The first book in English on the German Gothic in over thirty years, consisting of new essays investigating the internationality of the Gothic mode. The literary mode of the Gothic is well established in English Studies, and there is growing interest in its internationality. Gothic fiction is seen as transgressive, especially in the way it crosses borders, often illicitly -- for instance, in the form of plagiarized texts or pseudo-translations of nonexistent sources. In the 1790s, when the English Gothic novel was emerging, the real or ostensible source of many of these uncanny texts was Germany. Thisfirst book in ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Camden House
Number of pages
318
Condition
New
Number of Pages
318
Place of Publication
Columbia, MD, United States
ISBN
9781571135193
SKU
V9781571135193
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About Andrew (Ed) Cusack
ANDREW CUSACK is Senior Lecturer in German at the University of St Andrews. He worked previously as an Assistant Professor in Dublin before taking a postdoctoral fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. In 2012, he joined the University of St Andrews. He is the author of The Wanderer in Nineteenth-Century German Literature: Intellectual History ... Read more

Reviews for Popular Revenants: The German Gothic and Its International Reception, 1800-2000 (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)
The collection as a whole points to the demand for a broader critical discourse on the Gothic within Germanistik and to some of the main questions that derive from here: how to trace the 'birth' of the German Gothic from the affect-based spirit of the late Enlightenment; how to chart its strategies of production and dissemination against terminological confusions, gaps, ... Read more

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