Terror, Literature, History: Michel Foucault and Ann Radcliffe

• Authors: Fulka Josef
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The object of the present study is a particular literary reference that repeatedly appears in Michel Foucault’s work — a reference to the work of Ann Radcliffe. We present a close study of the passages where Foucault, in one way or another, deals with Ann Radcliffe’s novels (or novels that he believed to be written by Radcliffe), and attempt to show that Foucault’s interest in the “literature of terror” is not at all accidental. For Foucault, Gothic fiction is a literary “embodiment” of the historical transition from classicism to modernity.

Keywords

EN

Michel Foucault; Gothic fiction; literary modernity; French philosophy

• Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic
• Journal: Svět literatury – Časopis pro novodobé literatury (World of Literature – Journal for Modern Literatures)
• Year: 2024
• Volume: 34
• Issue: 70
• Pages: 117-134

Contributors

author

Fulka Josef

• Charles University, Faculty of Humanities