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@proceedings{1298371, author = {Čoupková, Eva}, booktitle = {Hradec Králové Anglophone Conference 2015 24. - 25. března 2015}, keywords = {G.B. Piranesi; Gothic novels; Victorian novels;}, language = {eng}, title = {Monstrous space of Piranesi in the works of M.G. Lewis and W.H. Ainsworth}, year = {2015} }
TY - CONF ID - 1298371 AU - Čoupková, Eva PY - 2015 TI - Monstrous space of Piranesi in the works of M.G. Lewis and W.H. Ainsworth KW - G.B. Piranesi KW - Gothic novels KW - Victorian novels; N2 - Abstract: Labyrinthine dungeons constitute a typical trope appearing in the Gothic literature of the 1790s, as well as in Victorian Gothic novels. The origins of this emblematic Gothic space were largely influenced by a series of engravings of the Italian painter G.B. Piranesi who in his sixteen prints entitled Carceri d’Invenzione depicted the interiors of vast prisons with tiny figures struggling in the huge illogical areas. The present study compares the oppressive architecture of the subterranean spaces in M.G. Lewis’s romance The Monk and a succession of stairs, trapdoors and cells in W.H. Ainsworth’s Tudor novel The Tower of London. While Lewis adds magic to enhance the monumental dimensions of the crypts in the Spanish convent, transforming it into a dark, daemonic realm, controlled by the oppressive institution of the Inquisition, Ainsworth, even when dealing with a historical topic, brings the Gothic prison to the Nineteenth Century Britain, transforming a typical Gothic setting into a national one. ER -
ČOUPKOVÁ, Eva. Monstrous space of Piranesi in the works of M.G. Lewis and W.H. Ainsworth. In \textit{Hradec Králové Anglophone Conference 2015 24. - 25. března 2015}. 2015.
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