The Ligeia syndrome, or, many "Happy Returns," in Conrad's Gothic.(Critical Essay)

From: Conradiana | Date: June 22, 2001| Author: | Copyright information

At the heart of Conrad's darkness and the heart of modernist Gothic is the urge to recapture the past so as to exorcise it once and for all. In so doing, Conrad relies on the trappings of the Gothic literary tradition as he revisits, revises, and at times parodies the Gothic mode of his nineteenth-century predecessors, trying to escape the anxiety of influence. Ultimately, the terror inspired by the literary Gothic forebears has more to do with the act of writing in a solipsistic universe and the author's ensuing Angst as an isolated voice than on any real belief in supernatural ...

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