The political gothic of dystopian romance. Joseph Shield Nicholson’s Thoth (1888)
Journal Title: Lublin Studies in Modern Languages and Literature - Year 2019, Vol 43, Issue 2
Abstract
The text of Thoth. A Romance, a late nineteenth-century dystopia by Joseph Shield Nicholson, is here analysed as a generic amalgam characterised by conspicuous repetitiousness and the motif of multiplication of a circular pattern on the levels of plot, setting, imagery and characterisation. A meeting of the Gothic and the dystopian in the text results in an expansion of the former convention, politicisation of the Gothic and blending of the psychoanalytic with the dystopian.
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Justyna Galant
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- DOI 10.17951/lsmll.2019.43.2.41-49
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