How the gothic reared its head in Dutch literature
It was not until the twentieth century, and especially the 1980s, that Dutch Gothic fiction began to flourish. This article gives an overview of the history of the Gothic in Dutch literature, and discusses the explanations given for the absence of a Dutch Gothic tradition. It then examines six Gothi...
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doaj-8c0888a621be42be9b3d0883b1e436202020-11-25T01:51:48ZengUniversidade Federal de Santa CatarinaIlha do Desterro 0101-48462175-80262012-11-0106212715210.5007/2175-8026.2012n62p12719083How the gothic reared its head in Dutch literatureAgnes Andeweg0Maastricht UniversityIt was not until the twentieth century, and especially the 1980s, that Dutch Gothic fiction began to flourish. This article gives an overview of the history of the Gothic in Dutch literature, and discusses the explanations given for the absence of a Dutch Gothic tradition. It then examines six Gothic novels from the 1980s in more depth to determine what kind of “cultural work” the Gothic does in late-twentieth century Dutch novels. In those novels, the Gothic is a way of expressing the ambivalences accompanying new societal relations following the 1960s, when constructs of the self in terms of gender and sexuality were reformulated.https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/desterro/article/view/26991gothic noveltwentieth-century dutch literaturegendersexuality |
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It was not until the twentieth century, and especially the 1980s, that Dutch Gothic fiction began to flourish. This article gives an overview of the history of the Gothic in Dutch literature, and discusses the explanations given for the absence of a Dutch Gothic tradition. It then examines six Gothic novels from the 1980s in more depth to determine what kind of “cultural work” the Gothic does in late-twentieth century Dutch novels. In those novels, the Gothic is a way of expressing the ambivalences accompanying new societal relations following the 1960s, when constructs of the self in terms of gender and sexuality were reformulated. |
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