How Long to Read Gothic Riffs

How Long Does it Take to Read Gothic Riffs?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 59 minutes to read Gothic Riffs by Diane Hoeveler

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Gothic Riffs: Secularizing the Uncanny in the European Imaginary, 1780-1820 by Diane Long Hoeveler provides the first comprehensive study of what are called "collateral gothic" genres--operas, ballads, chapbooks, dramas, and melodramas--that emerged out of the gothic novel tradition founded by Horace Walpole, Matthew Lewis, and Ann Radcliffe. The role of religion and its more popular manifestations, superstition and magic, in the daily lives of Western Europeans were effectively undercut by the forces of secularization that were gaining momentum on every front, particularly by 1800. It is clear, however, that the lower class and the emerging bourgeoisie were loath to discard their traditional beliefs. We can see their search for a sense of transcendent order and spiritual meaning in the continuing popularity of gothic performances that demonstrate that there was more than a residue of a religious calendar still operating in the public performative realm. Because this bourgeois culture could not turn away from God, it chose to be haunted, in its literature and drama, by God's uncanny avatars: priests, corrupt monks, incestuous fathers and uncles. The gothic aesthetic emerged during this period as an ideologically contradictory and complex discourse system; a secularizing of the uncanny; a way of alternately valorizing and at the same time slandering the realms of the supernatural, the sacred, the maternal, and the primitive.

How long is Gothic Riffs?

Gothic Riffs by Diane Hoeveler is 289 pages long, and a total of 74,851 words.

This makes it 98% the length of the average book. It also has 91% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Gothic Riffs Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 49 minutes to read Gothic Riffs aloud.

What Reading Level is Gothic Riffs?

Gothic Riffs is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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