Art of Darkness : A Poetics of Gothic - Anne Williams

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Art of Darkness

A Poetics of Gothic

By: Anne Williams

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Paperback | 15 April 1995 | Edition Number 1

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Art of Darkness is an ambitious attempt to describe the principles governing Gothic literature. Ranging across five centuries of fiction, drama, and verse--including tales as diverse as Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto, Shelley's Frankenstein, Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and Freud's The Mysteries of Enlightenment--Anne Williams proposes three new premises: that Gothic is "poetic," not novelistic, in nature; that there are two parallel Gothic traditions, Male and Female; and that the Gothic and the Romantic represent a single literary tradition.

Building on the psychoanalytic and feminist theory of Julia Kristeva, Williams argues that Gothic conventions such as the haunted castle and the family curse signify the fall of the patriarchal family; Gothic is therefore "poetic" in Kristeva's sense because it reveals those "others" most often identified with the female. Williams identifies distinct Male and Female Gothic traditions: In the Male plot, the protagonist faces a cruel, violent, and supernatural world, without hope of salvation. The Female plot, by contrast, asserts the power of the mind to comprehend a world which, though mysterious, is ultimately sensible. By showing how Coleridge and Keats used both Male and Female Gothic, Williams challenges accepted notions about gender and authorship among the Romantics. Lucidly and gracefully written, Art of Darkness alters our understanding of the Gothic tradition, of Romanticism, and of the relations between gender and genre in literary history.

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Acknowledgments
Introduction: Gothic Fiction's Family Romances
The Nightmare of History: Acting On and Acting Out
The House of Bluebeard: Gothic Engineering
Pope as Gothic "Novelist": Eloisa to Abelard
Symbolization and Its Discontents
The Nature of Gothic
Family Plots
Nightmere's Milk: The Male and Female Formulas
Male Gothic: Si(g)ns of the Fathers
Demon Lovers: The Monk
Why Are Vampires Afraid of Garlic?: Dracula
The Female Plot of Gothic Fiction
The Male as "Other"
The Fiction of Feminine Desires: Not the Mirror but the Lamp
The Eighteenth-Century Psyche: The Mysteries of Udolpho
Dispelling the Name of the Father
An "I" for an Eye: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
"Frost at Midnight": (M)others and Other Strangers
Keats and the Names of the Mother
Epilogue: The Mysteries of Enlightenment; or, Dr. Freud's Gothic Novel
Inner and Outer Spaces: The Alien Trilogy
Gothic Families
The Female Plot of Gothic Fiction
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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