Ann Radcliffe and Matthew Lewis

2012 ◽  
pp. 91-109
Author(s):  
Robert Miles
Keyword(s):  
Ann Radcliffe ◽  
Matthew Lewis

scholarly journals O GÓTICO, O SUBLIME E A DISTOPIA: UMA LEITURA DE 1984

Abusões ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
João Pedro Bellas
Keyword(s):  
George Orwell ◽  
Ann Radcliffe ◽  
Matthew Lewis

Este trabalho tem como principal objetivo refletir sobre uma possível aproximação entre o gótico e a distopia a partir de um estudo do romance 1984, de George Orwell. Apesar das diversas dificuldades existentes em qualquer tentativa de definição de ambos como gêneros discursivos, pretendo delimitar algumas características formais recorrentes tanto em narrativas góticas como naquelas tomadas como distópicas. Com isso em vista, buscarei explorar mais profundamente um elemento específico, a saber, o sublime. No Gótico setecentista, esse conceito estético foi amplamente mobilizado por autores como Matthew Lewis e, principalmente, Ann Radcliffe, tanto como um elemento formal para a construção do enredo – especialmente em descrições do espaço narrativo – quanto como um efeito de recepção que se buscava suscitar no leitor. Portanto, pretendo verificar se o sublime é um elemento constitutivo de 1984 para, a partir dele, analisar se é possível descrever o romance de Orwell como uma obra de influxos góticos.

Spectres of Antiquity

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Uden
Keyword(s):  
Ann Radcliffe ◽  
Gothic Literature ◽  
Horace Walpole ◽  
Matthew Lewis ◽  
Roman Culture ◽  
Gothic Novels ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Vision ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Of Greece

Gothic literature imagines the return of ghosts from the past. What about the classical past? Spectres of Antiquity is the first full-length study describing the relationship between Greek and Roman culture and the Gothic novels, poetry, and drama of the eighteenth and early-nineteenth century. Rather than simply representing the opposite of classical aesthetics and ideas, the Gothic emerged from an awareness of the lingering power of antiquity, and it irreverently fractures and deconstructs classical images and ideas. The Gothic also reflects a new vision of the ancient world: no longer inspiring modernity through its examples, antiquity has become a ghost, haunting and oppressing contemporary minds rather than guiding them. Through readings of canonical works by authors including Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe, Matthew Lewis, and Mary Shelley, Spectres of Antiquity argues that these authors’ ghostly plots and ideas preserve the remembered traces of Greece and Rome. In comprehensive detail, Spectres of Antiquity rewrites the history of the Gothic, demonstrating that the genre was haunted by a far deeper sense of history than readers had previously assumed.

Ancestral Piles

2018 ◽  
pp. 519-541
Author(s):  
Sean Moreland
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Mary Shelley ◽  
Sir Walter Scott ◽  
Charles Brockden Brown ◽  
William Godwin ◽  
Ann Radcliffe ◽  
Horace Walpole ◽  
Architectural Model ◽  
Walter Scott

This essay examines Poe’s conception and use of the Gothic via his engagements with the work of earlier writers from Horace Walpole through Ann Radcliffe, William Godwin, Charles Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley, and E. T. A. Hoffmann. Poe’s uses of the Gothic, and his relationship with the work of these writers, was informed by his philosophical materialism and framed by his dialogue with the writings of Sir Walter Scott. Tracing these associations reveals Poe’s transformation of the idea of “Gothic structure” from an architectural model, the ancestral pile of the eighteenth-century Gothic, to one of energetic transformation, the electric pile featured in many of Poe’s tales.

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