The Political Gothic of Dystopian Romance. Joseph Shield Nicholson’s ”Thoth” (1888)

Justyna Laura Galant

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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, politicization of the Gothic and blending of the psychoanalytic with the dystopian.


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Keywords: nineteenth century, dystopia, psychoanalysis, politics, Joseph Shield Nicholson

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/lsmll.2019.43.2.41-49
Date of publication: 2019-07-03 11:00:34
Date of submission: 2018-07-01 18:03:20


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