This book uses clinical psychoanalytic theory to illustrate how early British Gothic fiction reveals undercurrents of psychopathological behavior. It demonstrates that psychological insights gained from Gothic romance anticipate the later scientific...
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This book uses clinical psychoanalytic theory to illustrate how early British Gothic fiction reveals undercurrents of psychopathological behavior. It demonstrates that psychological insights gained from Gothic romance anticipate the later scientific findings of psychoanalysis. Chapters consider the division of the Gothic novel's critical reception between allegory and romance; how the structure of early British Gothic romance parallels Freud's notion of the uncanny; the genre's perverse origins in Walpole's The Castle of Otranto; sexual differentiation and the parallel between development of G
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Cover; Acknowledgments; Table of Contents; Introduction; 1. The Two-Headed Gothic Monster; 2. Retrospective Fantasy and the Uncanny Structure of Gothic Romance; 3. Horace Walpole and the Perverse Origins of the Gothic Romance; 4. Sexual Difference and the Gothic Sublime; 5. Ann Radcliffe and the Gothic Terror of Hysteria; 6. Matthew Lewis and the Gothic Horror of Obsessional Neurosis; Conclusion; Chapter Notes; Bibliography; Index
