British Identities, Heroic Nationalisms, and the Gothic Novel, 1764-1824 [Hardcover]

British Identities, Heroic Nationalisms, and the Gothic Novel, 1764-1824 considers three interlocking developments of this period: the emergence of the Gothic novel at a time when national upheavals required the construction of a new nationalist identity, the Gothic novel's redefinition of heroes and heroism in that nationalist debate, and changes within class and gender as well as audience and author relations. The scope of this study extends beyond the confines of the novel proper to include chapbooks and illustrated redactions.Acknowledgements Introduction: Punctuating Disequilibrium PART I: TAILORING THE GOTHIC MYTH Bearing Repetition PART II: RETAILING THE GOTHIC MYTH When Everything New is Old Again: Horace Walpole's Heroic Bequests The Prince in the Pauper: Clara Reeve and The Old English Baron Radcliffe, Revolution, and the Romance of Heroism, 1789-94 PART III: TAILGATING ON THE GOTHIC MYTH Speaking Shadows No Child's Play: The Gothic Chapbooks From Innkeepers to Puppet Masters: Staging the [Heroic] The Afterlife of the Gothic Nation Notes Bibliography IndexTONI WEIN is Lecturer at the Princeton Writing Program. She received a Mellon Dissertation Fellowship from the University of California and has published on eighteenth- to twentieth-century British literature in well-known journals