Brilliant Gloom: The Contradictions of British Gothic Drama, 1768--1823

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Published on 2008 by ProQuest

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Gothic writing is currently theorized as a literature of terror that thrives on the representation of queer eroticisms and social and political subversion. But these accounts do not adequately consider the numerous gothic plays written and performed in Britain during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. This gothic drama contains much more humor, certainty, and affirmation of conventional morality than gothic fiction and poetry. An attention to performance reveals that gothic drama is more transgressive than appears at first reading and that comic delight is an essential component of the gothic experience. Gothic drama can conservatively smooth over cultural ruptures and fears to affirm the status quo as well as progressively reach toward the lower and middling classes to contest patriarchal tyranny.

Brilliant Gloom: The Contradictions of British Gothic Drama, 1768--1823

Lenght : 268

Language : en

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