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Gothic Radicalism

Literature, Philosophy and Psychoanalysis in the Nineteenth Century

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  • © 2000

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Authors:
  1. Andrew Smith

    1. University of Glamorgan, UK

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Andrew Smith
    Pages 1-10

  3. The Gothic and the Sublime

    • Andrew Smith
    Pages 11-37

  4. Frankenstein: Sublimity Reconsidered, Foucault and Kristeva

    • Andrew Smith
    Pages 38-58

  5. History and the Sublime

    • Andrew Smith
    Pages 59-75

  6. Sublime Utterance: Gothic Voyages, Going Public with the Private

    • Andrew Smith
    Pages 76-102

  7. The Urban Sublime: Kant and Poe

    • Andrew Smith
    Pages 103-128

  8. Textuality and Sublimity in Dracula

    • Andrew Smith
    Pages 129-147

  9. Freud’s Uncanny Sublime

    • Andrew Smith
    Pages 148-173

  10. Afterword

    • Andrew Smith
    Pages 174-178

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 179-188
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About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Glamorgan, UK

    Andrew Smith

About the author

Andrew Smith is Lecturer in English Studies at the University of Glamorgarr.

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