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The progress of romance : literary historiography and the Gothic novel, David H. Richter
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- "In this vigorous response to recent trends in theory and criticism, David H. Richter asks how we can again learn to practice literary history. Despite the watchword "always historicize," comparatively few monographs attempt genuine historical explanations of literary phenomena. Richter theorizes that the contemporary evasion of history may stem from our sense that the modern literary ideas underlying our historical explanations - Marxism, formalism, and reception theory - are unable, by themselves, to inscribe an adequate narrative of the origins, development, and decline of genres and style systems. Despite theorists' attempts to incorporate others principles of explanation, each of these master narratives on its own has areas of blindness and areas of insight, questions it can answer and questions it cannot even ask. But the explanations, however differently focused, complement one another, with one supplying what another lacks." "Using the first heyday of the Gothic novel as the prime object of study, Richter develops his pluralistic vision of literary history in practice. Successive chapters outline first a neo-Marxist history of the Gothic, using the ideas of Raymond Williams and Terry Eagleton to understand the literature of terror as an outgrowth of inexorable tensions within Georgian society; next, a narrative on the Gothic as an institutional form, drawn from the formalist theories of R.S. Crane and Ralph Rader; and finally a study of the reception of the Gothic - the way the romance was sustained by, and in its turn altered, the motives for literary response in the British public around the turn of the nineteenth century."
- "In his concluding chapter, Richter returns to the question of theory, to general issues of adequacy and explanatory power in literary history, to the false panaceas of Foucauldian new historicism and cultural studies, and to the necessity of historical pluralism. A learned, engaging, and important book. The Progress of Romance is essential reading for scholars of British literature, narrative, narrative theory, the novel, and the theory of the novel."--Jacket
- Language
- eng
- Label
- The progress of romance : literary historiography and the Gothic novel
- Title
- The progress of romance
- Title remainder
- literary historiography and the Gothic novel
- Statement of responsibility
- David H. Richter
- Subject
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- English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism | Theory, etc
- Gothic revival (Literature) -- Great Britain
- Horror tales, English -- History and criticism | Theory, etc
- Literature -- Philosophy
- Narration (Rhetoric)
- Reader-response criticism
- Romanticism -- Great Britain
- English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism | Theory, etc
- Language
- eng
- Summary
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- "In this vigorous response to recent trends in theory and criticism, David H. Richter asks how we can again learn to practice literary history. Despite the watchword "always historicize," comparatively few monographs attempt genuine historical explanations of literary phenomena. Richter theorizes that the contemporary evasion of history may stem from our sense that the modern literary ideas underlying our historical explanations - Marxism, formalism, and reception theory - are unable, by themselves, to inscribe an adequate narrative of the origins, development, and decline of genres and style systems. Despite theorists' attempts to incorporate others principles of explanation, each of these master narratives on its own has areas of blindness and areas of insight, questions it can answer and questions it cannot even ask. But the explanations, however differently focused, complement one another, with one supplying what another lacks." "Using the first heyday of the Gothic novel as the prime object of study, Richter develops his pluralistic vision of literary history in practice. Successive chapters outline first a neo-Marxist history of the Gothic, using the ideas of Raymond Williams and Terry Eagleton to understand the literature of terror as an outgrowth of inexorable tensions within Georgian society; next, a narrative on the Gothic as an institutional form, drawn from the formalist theories of R.S. Crane and Ralph Rader; and finally a study of the reception of the Gothic - the way the romance was sustained by, and in its turn altered, the motives for literary response in the British public around the turn of the nineteenth century."
- "In his concluding chapter, Richter returns to the question of theory, to general issues of adequacy and explanatory power in literary history, to the false panaceas of Foucauldian new historicism and cultural studies, and to the necessity of historical pluralism. A learned, engaging, and important book. The Progress of Romance is essential reading for scholars of British literature, narrative, narrative theory, the novel, and the theory of the novel."--Jacket
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1945-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Richter, David H.
- Dewey number
- 823/.0873809
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PR830.T3
- LC item number
- R53 1996
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Theory and interpretation of narrative
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- Horror tales, English
- English fiction
- English fiction
- Gothic revival (Literature)
- Romanticism
- Reader-response criticism
- Literature
- Narration (Rhetoric)
- Label
- The progress of romance : literary historiography and the Gothic novel, David H. Richter
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-229) and index
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- volume
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 33983143
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xi, 242 pages
- Isbn
- 9780814206942
- Isbn Type
- (cloth : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 95053094
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- Label
- The progress of romance : literary historiography and the Gothic novel, David H. Richter
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-229) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 33983143
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xi, 242 pages
- Isbn
- 9780814206942
- Isbn Type
- (cloth : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 95053094
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
Subject
- English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism | Theory, etc
- Gothic revival (Literature) -- Great Britain
- Horror tales, English -- History and criticism | Theory, etc
- Literature -- Philosophy
- Narration (Rhetoric)
- Reader-response criticism
- Romanticism -- Great Britain
- English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism | Theory, etc
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