"Celebrated as an actress on the London stage (1776-80) and notorious as the mistress of the Prince of Wales (1779-80), Mary Darby Robinson had to write to support herself from the mid-1780s until her death in 1800. She mastered a wide range of styles, published prolifically, and became the poe...

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1. Verfasser:	Hogle, Jerrold E. 1948- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2023
Schriftenreihe:	Cambridge elements. Elements in the Gothic
Schlagworte:	Robinson, Mary > 1758-1806 Gothic novel Robinson, Mary / 1758-1800 / Criticism and interpretation Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English / History and criticism Gothic poetry (Literary genre), English / History and criticism
Zusammenfassung:	"Celebrated as an actress on the London stage (1776-80) and notorious as the mistress of the Prince of Wales (1779-80), Mary Darby Robinson had to write to support herself from the mid-1780s until her death in 1800. She mastered a wide range of styles, published prolifically, and became the poetry editor of the Morning Post. As her writing developed across the 1790s, she increasingly used the motifs of Gothic fiction and drama descended from Horace Walpole's Castle of Otranto (1764). These came to pervade her late novels and poems so much that she even wrote her autobiography as a Gothic romance. She also deployed them to critique the ideologies of male dominance and the forms of writing in which they appeared. This progression culminated in her final collection of verses, Lyrical Tales (1800), where she Gothically exposes the conflicted underpinnings in the now-famous Lyrical Ballads (1798) by Wordsworth and Coleridge."
Beschreibung:	67 Seiten
ISBN:	9781009160872