The Cambridge History of the Gothic, Volume 1: Gothic in the Long Eighteenth Century
- Submitting institution
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The University of Sheffield
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 7353
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.1017/9781108561044
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- ISBN
- 9781108472708
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- July
- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Additional information
- Wright’s contribution to this collection was, in consultation with her co-editor, to establish the intellectual framework of the volume through co-authoring a long proposal, to commission the international and interdisciplinary range of academic contributors, to edit each of the twenty-one chapters as they were submitted, and return them to the contributor for the revisions. Wright also composed a third of the co-authored Introduction to the volume of 8715 words and 21 pages. This Introduction, ‘The Gothic in/and History’, serves as the Introduction to all three volumes of the series, and lays out significant research-led intellectual work upon the imbrications of the Gothic and History from the eighteenth to twenty-first centuries. Wright also wrote the sole-authored Chapter 14 ‘Ann Radcliffe and Matthew Lewis’ (7615 words). This chapter includes new research upon the fame and reception history of these best-selling Gothic novelists of the 1790s. Wright here examines contemporaneous poems composed about the fame of those authors in a range of eighteenth-century periodicals, famous and obscure, published during their lifetime. She examines how Romantic-period authors connected the reputations and legacies of these two best-selling but very different authors of the Gothic novel in the 1790s, and discusses hitherto undiscovered poems, such as the anonymous satirical poem ‘The Old Hag in a Red Cloak: A Romance’, dedicated to the author Matthew Lewis, that was published in The Spirit of Anti-Jacobinism for 1802.
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