British Identities, Heroic Nationalisms, and the Gothic Novel, 1764-1824

British Identities, Heroic Nationalisms, and the Gothic Novel, 1764-1824 considers three interlocking developments of this period: the emergence of the Gothic novel at a time when national upheavals required the construction of a new nationalist identity, the Gothic novel''s redefinition of heroes and heroism in that nationalist debate, and changes within class and gender as well as audience and a...