Fourteen world-class experts on the Gothic provide thorough accounts of this haunting-to-horrifying genre from the 1760s to the end of the twentieth century. Essays explore the connections of Gothic fictions to political and industrial revolutions, the realistic novel, the theater, Romantic and post-Romantic poetry, nationalism and racism from Europe to America, colonized and post-colonial populations, the rise of film, the struggles between "high" and "popular" culture, and changing attitudes towards human identity, life and death, sanity and madness. The volume also includes a chronology and guides to further reading.
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"Contributors also emphasize that the 'gothic' novel was not strictly English, but that it had many more outreaches. Although some essays include considerable political theorizing, the language does not overwhelm.... Recommended." Choice
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Fourteen world-class experts on the Gothic provide thorough accounts of this haunting-to-horrifying genre from the 1760s to the end of the twentieth century. Essays explore the connections of Gothic fictions to political and industrial revolutions, the realistic novel, the theater, Romantic and post-Romantic poetry, nationalism and racism from Europe to America, colonized and post-colonial populations, the rise of film, the struggles between 'high' and 'popular' culture, and changing attitudes towards human identity, life and death, sanity and madness. The volume also includes a chronology and guides to further reading.
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This book is a wonderful start to anyone wanting to look at the idea of the Gothic. I'm a graduate student in English, and this book has been a great tool in helping me with my course work. The book gives you a good overview of the various types and periods of Gothic, including the more modern topics such as films and video games. It is a good starting off point that can help direct your scholarship in the right direction, as well as making you literate as to what exactly the Gothic is and where it has been. I highly recommend it.
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Gothic fiction is hardly "Gothic" at all. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
roman frénétique, gothic drama, terror mode, iron shroud, roman noir, white zombie, gothic motifs, supernatural fiction, useful myth Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, French Revolution, Ann Radcliffe, American Gothic, Gothic Documents, Jane Eyre, Oxford University Press, The Castle of Otranto, Drury Lane, English Gothic, Matthew Lewis, Covent Garden, Walter Scott, Fountainville Forest, Bleak House, Cambridge University Press, Clara Reeve, Sophia Lee, David Punter, United States, Caleb Williams, Critical Review, Robert Miles, Charlotte Brontë, Little Dorrit New!
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Gothic fiction is hardly "Gothic" at all. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
roman frénétique, gothic drama, terror mode, iron shroud, roman noir, white zombie, gothic motifs, supernatural fiction, useful myth Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, French Revolution, Ann Radcliffe, American Gothic, Gothic Documents, Jane Eyre, Oxford University Press, The Castle of Otranto, Drury Lane, English Gothic, Matthew Lewis, Covent Garden, Walter Scott, Fountainville Forest, Bleak House, Cambridge University Press, Clara Reeve, Sophia Lee, David Punter, United States, Caleb Williams, Critical Review, Robert Miles, Charlotte Brontë, Little Dorrit New!
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- The Mark of the Beast (Dover Horror Classics) by Rudyard Kipling on 5 pages
- The Lair of the White Worm by Stoker, Bram on 4 pages
- The Woman in White (Bantam Classics) by Wilkie Collins on 4 pages
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- The Gothic (Blackwell Guides to Literature) by David Punter on 7 pages
- From Dickens to Dracula: Gothic, Economics, and Victorian Fiction (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture) by Gail Turley Houston on 6 pages
- American Gothic Fiction: An Introduction (Literary Genres) by Allan Lloyd-Smith on 6 pages
- The Gothic (Blackwell Guides to Literature) by David Punter on 5 pages
- The Cambridge Companion to Shelley (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Timothy Morton in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
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