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The psychopathology of the Gothic romance : perversion, neuroses and psychosis in early works of the genre / Ed Cameron.

Title
  1. The psychopathology of the Gothic romance : perversion, neuroses and psychosis in early works of the genre / Ed Cameron.
Published by
  1. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., Publishers, c2010.
Author
  1. Cameron, Ed, 1966-

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Description
  1. vii, 207 p.; 23 cm.
Summary
  1. "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.
Subject
  1. Deviant behavior in literature
  2. Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English > History and criticism
  3. Neuroses in literature
  4. Psychoanalysis and literature
  5. Psychology, Pathological, in literature
  6. Psychoses in literature
Contents
  1. Introduction: 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.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
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