Background
Williams, Anne was born on March 23, 1947 in Stephenville, Texas, United States. Daughter of Charles Bunyan and Gary Williams.
(In examining the principles governing Gothic literature, ...)
In examining the principles governing Gothic literature, this book proposes three new premises: that Gothic is poetic, not novelistic, in nature; that there are two parallel Gothic traditions - Male and Female; and that the Gothic and the Romantic represent a single literary tradition.
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Art of Darkness is an ambitious attempt to describe the principles governing Gothic literature. Ranging across five centuries of fiction, drama, and verse—including tales as diverse as Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto, Shelley's Frankenstein, Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and Freud's The Mysteries of Enlightenment—Anne Williams proposes three new premises: that Gothic is "poetic," not novelistic, in nature; that there are two parallel Gothic traditions, Male and Female; and that the Gothic and the Romantic represent a single literary tradition. Building on the psychoanalytic and feminist theory of Julia Kristeva, Williams argues that Gothic conventions such as the haunted castle and the family curse signify the fall of the patriarchal family; Gothic is therefore "poetic" in Kristeva's sense because it reveals those "others" most often identified with the female. Williams identifies distinct Male and Female Gothic traditions: In the Male plot, the protagonist faces a cruel, violent, and supernatural world, without hope of salvation. The Female plot, by contrast, asserts the power of the mind to comprehend a world which, though mysterious, is ultimately sensible. By showing how Coleridge and Keats used both Male and Female Gothic, Williams challenges accepted notions about gender and authorship among the Romantics. Lucidly and gracefully written, Art of Darkness alters our understanding of the Gothic tradition, of Romanticism, and of the relations between gender and genre in literary history.
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Williams, Anne was born on March 23, 1947 in Stephenville, Texas, United States. Daughter of Charles Bunyan and Gary Williams.
Bachelor, Baylor University, 1969; Master of Arts, Cornell Univercity, 1971; Doctor of Philosophy, Cornell Univercity, 1973.
Assistant professor, Cornell College, Mount Vernon, Iowa., 1973-1976; assistant professor, U. Georgia, Athens, 1976-1983; associate professor, U. Georgia, Athens, 1983-1991; professor, U. Georgia, Athens, Massachusetts, since 1994; associate professor, Holy Cross College, Worcester, Massachusetts, 1991-1992.
(In examining the principles governing Gothic literature, ...)
( Art of Darkness is an ambitious attempt to describe the...)
Member Modern Language Association, North America Society for Study of Romanticism, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.
Married John D. Boyd, May 30, 1978.