The political gothic of dystopian romance.
Joseph Shield Nicholson’s Thoth (1888)
The political gothic of dystopian romance.
Joseph Shield Nicholson’s Thoth (1888)
Author(s): Justyna GalantSubject(s): Studies of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej
Keywords: nineteenth century, dystopia; psychoanalysis; politics; Joseph Shield Nicholson
Summary/Abstract: The text of Thoth. A Romance, a late nineteenth-century dystopia by Joseph Shield Nicholson, is here analysed as a generic amalgam characterised by conspicuous repetitiousness and the motif of multiplication of a circular pattern on the levels of plot, setting, imagery and characterisation. A meeting of the Gothic and the dystopian in the text results in an expansion of the former convention, politicisation of the Gothic and blending of the psychoanalytic with the dystopian.
Journal: Lublin Studies in Modern Languages and Literature
- Issue Year: 43/2019
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 41-49
- Page Count: 9
- Language: English