A01=Lauren J. Nixon
Author_Lauren J. Nixon
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Gothic
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- ISBN 9781837722648
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 15 Jun 2025
- Publisher: University of Wales Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This is an in depth exploration of how the Gothic literature boom of the late-eighteenth century was a response and reaction to the expansion of the British empire, and to the continued periods of war in the second half of the century. The Gothic has often been discussed in relation to the French Revolution as a literature of terror, but The Gothic at War demonstrates how the works of Gothic writers such as Horace Walpole, Charlotte Smith and Ann Radcliffe were also a literature of conflict. This study places a particular focus on masculinity and national identity, analysing how the representations of war and the figure of the soldier in the Gothic of the era allowed women writers in particular to explore anxieties about manliness and nationality.
Lauren J. Nixon works for the Directorate of Research Culture and Environment at Nottingham Trent University. She co-hosts The Ghoul Guides, a podcast creating Gothic pop-culture content.
