Failed Rites of Passage in Early Gothic Fiction: Dissertationsschrift (Salzburg Studies in English Literature and Culture SEL & C, Band 6) - Hardcover

Oppolzer, Markus

 
9783631611357: Failed Rites of Passage in Early Gothic Fiction: Dissertationsschrift (Salzburg Studies in English Literature and Culture SEL & C, Band 6)
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ISBN 10: 3631611358 ISBN 13: 9783631611357
Verlag: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

This study applies Victor Turner’s theory of liminality to an examination of early British Gothic fiction and its cultural context. Contrary to the widespread belief that the Gothic is escapist in nature, a close reading of novels such as William Godwin’s Caleb Williams (1794), Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) or Charles Maturin’s Melmoth the Wanderer (1820) reveals that they actively engage with socio-political and educational debates of the time. Using the licence of fantastic literature, the Gothic sets up social experiments in which young, inexperienced protagonists have to face a variety of institutions. Under what circumstances are they willing to submit to these social orders? Why are rites of passage often bound to fail? These are questions consistently raised in this genre and explored in this study with reference to a wide range of political, legal, and educational treatises of the eighteenth century.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Markus Oppolzer holds a PhD from the University of Salzburg, where he is currently employed as a lecturer (Post-Doc) at the Department of English and American Studies, teaching British literature and its cultural context. Apart from Gothic fiction his research interests include comics, the comparative study of narrative strategies in various media, and the concept of unreliability.

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Verlag
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Erscheinungsdatum
2011
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
3631611358
ISBN 13 
9783631611357
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