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This is an in depth exploration of how the Gothic literature boom of the late-eighteenth century was a response and reaction to the expansion of the British empire, and to the continued periods of war in the second half of the century. The Gothic has often been discussed in relation to the French Revolution as a literature of terror, but The Gothic at War demonstrates how the works of Gothic writers such as Horace Walpole, Charlotte Smith and Ann Radcliffe were also a literature of conflict. This study places a particular focus on masculinity and national identity, analysing how the representations of war and the figure of the soldier in the Gothic of the era allowed women writers in particular to explore anxieties about manliness and nationality.
Lauren J. Nixon works for the Directorate of Research Culture and Environment at Nottingham Trent University. She co-hosts The Ghoul Guides, a podcast creating Gothic pop-culture content.
Introduction: Reclaiming Ancient Glories?: Military masculinity and the rise of the GothicChapter One: ‘His gallant and indefatigable behaviour’: Horace Walpole, Henry Seymour Conway, and finding the soldier in The Castle of OtrantoChapter Two: Champions of Virtue: Effeminacy, chivalry and national virtue in Clara Reeve’s The Old English BaronChapter Three: ‘That which is right’: Fashioning the soldier as hero in the early works of Ann RadcliffeChapter Four: ‘Tinsel ornaments’: Revolution, Gothic realties, and Charlotte Smith’s anti-war novelsChapter Five: ‘He is just what a young man ought [not] to be’: Anxiety, conflict and failed masculinity in Ann Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of UdolphoChapter Six: ‘I am not what I am’: Fractured masculinities and female distress in The Midnight Bell and ClermontConclusion: ‘This comes of the peace’: War and the Gothic beyond the NapoleonicBibliography
