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008 100729s2010 ncua b 001 0 eng
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020 $a9780786447718 (softcover : alk. paper)
020 $a0786447710 (softcover : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn635492233
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050 00 $aPR830.T3$bC38 2010
082 00 $a823/.0873309353$222
100 1 $aCameron, Ed,$d1966-
245 14 $aThe psychopathology of the Gothic romance :$bperversion, neuroses and psychosis in early works of the genre /$cEd Cameron.
260 $aJefferson, N.C. :$bMcFarland & Co., Publishers,$cc2010.
300 $avii, 207 p. :$bill. ;$c23 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 169-203) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: the gothic on the couch -- The two-headed gothic monster -- Retrospective fantasy and the uncanny structure of gothic romance -- Horace Walpole and the perverse origins of the gothic romance -- Sexual difference and the gothic sublime -- Ann Radcliffe and the gothic terror of hysteria -- Matthew Lewis and the gothic horror of obsessional neurosis -- Conclusion: James Hogg, the psychotic doppelgänger, and the foreclosure of the gothic.
520 $a"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.
650 0 $aGothic fiction (Literary genre), English$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aPsychology, Pathological, in literature.
650 0 $aDeviant behavior in literature.
650 0 $aNeuroses in literature.
650 0 $aPsychoses in literature.
650 0 $aPsychoanalysis and literature.