Event Title
Session 1
Location
Centre de formation et de séminaires (CEFOS) in Remich/Luxembourg
Start Date
10-3-2013 10:00 AM
Description
Professor David Punter: “Trauma, Gothic, Revolution”
Respondent Professor Diane Long Hoeveler
ABSTRACT
It was the Marquis de Sade who first claimed that English Gothic was a response to les évènements in France. While this begs certain questions of historical accuracy, Gothic in its late eighteenth and early nineteenth century manifestations was crucially bound up with assertions of nationalism, and especially concerned with a perceived northern European version of ‘democracy’ as opposed to a Mediterranean complex of tyrannies. Thus a picture of Europe is here displayed, and it is played out in the Gothic in oppositions between continuity/inheritance and trauma/usurpation.
Session 1
Centre de formation et de séminaires (CEFOS) in Remich/Luxembourg
Professor David Punter: “Trauma, Gothic, Revolution”
Respondent Professor Diane Long Hoeveler
ABSTRACT
It was the Marquis de Sade who first claimed that English Gothic was a response to les évènements in France. While this begs certain questions of historical accuracy, Gothic in its late eighteenth and early nineteenth century manifestations was crucially bound up with assertions of nationalism, and especially concerned with a perceived northern European version of ‘democracy’ as opposed to a Mediterranean complex of tyrannies. Thus a picture of Europe is here displayed, and it is played out in the Gothic in oppositions between continuity/inheritance and trauma/usurpation.