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Camilletti, Fabio (2018) From Villa Diodati to Villa Gabrielli : a manuscript appendix to Fantasmagoriana. Gothic Studies, 20 (1-2). pp. 214-226. doi:10.7227/GS.0045 ISSN 1362-7937 .
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Abstract
The role played by Fantasmagoriana in the genesis of Frankenstein and The Vampyre has largely prevented the full critical appreciation of this work in its original context of production, i.e. the French market of supernatural anthologies in the early nineteenth century, paving the way to the so-called frénétique vogue. By analysing a manuscript appendix to Fantasmagoriana, drafted between the mid-1820s and the mid-1830s and bound within a copy formerly belonging to the Roman family Gabrielli-Bonaparte, this article reinstates Fantasmagoriana within the environment of Napoleonic and post-Napoleonic culture and its renewed interest in the supernatural. Whereas English-speaking criticism has normally approached Fantasmagoriana through Tales of the Dead, i.e. Sarah Utterson’s Gothicizing and partial translation of 1813, an analysis of Fantasmagoriana from the point of view of its original readership will enable us to rethink the specificities of the French Gothic beyond Anglo-centric perspectives.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PQ Romance literatures | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > School of Modern Languages and Cultures | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Fantasmagoriana, Ghosts, Ghost stories, Gothic fiction (Literary genre), French | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Gothic Studies | ||||||||
Publisher: | Edinburgh University Press Ltd. | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1362-7937 | ||||||||
Official Date: | November 2018 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 20 | ||||||||
Number: | 1-2 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 214-226 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.7227/GS.0045 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Edinburgh University Press in Gothic Studies. The Version of Record is available online at: http://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.7227/GS.0045 | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 8 June 2018 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 8 January 2019 | ||||||||
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