History as “Fairy-ground”: Scottish and Irish Female Voices and the Gothic Imagination (1780-1830) KU Leuven
The project inscribes itself in Gothic criticism’s recognition of the temporal dynamic of Gothic narratives. It articulates the Gothic as an aesthetic that negotiates the temporal and ideological relation between past and present. The study examines how female authors from Scotland and Ireland stage the past in Gothic texts in the Romantic Period (1780-1830). In particular, it focuses on the emplotment and anachronisation of the ...