Gothic Fiction and the Invention of Terrorism

Name: Gothic Fiction and the Invention of Terrorism
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By Joseph Crawford

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Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2014 This book examines the connections between the growth of'terror fiction' - the genre now known as 'Gothic' - in the late eighteenthcentury, and the simultaneous appearance of the conceptual origins of'terrorism' as a category of political action. In the 1790s, Crawford argues, fourinter-connected bodies of writing arose in Britain: the historical mythology ofthe French Revolution, the political rhetoric of 'terrorism', the genre ofpolitical conspiracy theory, and the literary genre of Gothic fiction, known atthe time as 'terrorist novel writing'. All four bodies of writing drew heavilyupon one another, in order to articulate their shared sense of the radical andmonstrous otherness of the extremes of human evil, a sense which was quite newto the eighteenth century, but has remained central to the ways in which wehave thought and written about evil and violence ever since.

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Binding:: Paperback
Edition:: 1
Number of Pages:: 232
Release Date:: 2015-03-12
Publication Date:: 2015-03-12
Publisher:: Continnuum-3PL
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 1474227783
ISBN13:: 9781474227780
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Weight:: 360 g
Height:: 156 cm
Width:: 234 cm
Thickness:: 13 cm

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