The Fantastic and European Gothic : History, Literature and the French Revolution.

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Fantasy and Counter-Revolution in the Theory and Fiction of Charles Nodier -- History and Politics in the Fantastic Fiction of Hoffmann,and his Reception in France -- The Double Life of the Artist in the Récits fantastiques of Théophile Gautier, and the Rejection of Bourgeois Life under the July Monarchy -- 'A Life in Death a Death in Life': the Legitimist Novels of Paul Féval and the Catastrophe of the Second Empire -- Paul Féval's Le Chevalier Ténèbre and Le Fanu's 'The Room in the Dragon Volant': the Failures of the Bourbon Restoration -- Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Olalla', The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and the Refutation of Utilitarian Morality -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Short Chronology of Relevant Events -- Bibliography -- Index.

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