Book contents
- Europe in British Literature and Culture
- Cambridge Themes in British Literature and Culture
- Europe in British Literature and Culture
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- General Editor’s Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Zones of Influence
- Part II Pan-European Moods and Movements
- Chapter 7 Renaissance
- Chapter 8 The Enlightenment
- Chapter 9 Romanticism
- Chapter 10 The Gothic
- Chapter 11 Modernism
- Part III Cultural Transfers
- Part IV Anxious Neighbourhoods, Uncertain Futures
- Index
Chapter 10 - The Gothic
from Part II - Pan-European Moods and Movements
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 June 2024
- Europe in British Literature and Culture
- Cambridge Themes in British Literature and Culture
- Europe in British Literature and Culture
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- General Editor’s Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Zones of Influence
- Part II Pan-European Moods and Movements
- Chapter 7 Renaissance
- Chapter 8 The Enlightenment
- Chapter 9 Romanticism
- Chapter 10 The Gothic
- Chapter 11 Modernism
- Part III Cultural Transfers
- Part IV Anxious Neighbourhoods, Uncertain Futures
- Index
Summary
This chapter examines cross-fertilization in the ‘transitional’ period (roughly 1818–37) between the Gothic novel, the French roman noir, and the German Schauer traditions, including the well-known influence of E. T. A. Hoffmann on the French conte fantastique and Hoffmann’s relation to George Sand and to Sir Walter Scott. It does so by tracing the European peregrinations of the Gothic trope of forbidden space across diverse national and literary borders, from Perrrault’s ‘Bluebeard’ to Tieck, Hoffmann, Radcliffe, Stevenson, and Wilde’s Dorian Gray. The chapter then focuses on George Sand’s novel Mauprat and its dialogue with Hoffmann and Scott.
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- Europe in British Literature and Culture , pp. 165 - 179Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024