York Notes Companions Gothic Literature

Part One: Introduction

Part Two: A Cultural Overview

Part Three: Texts, Writers and Contexts

Eighteenth-century Gothic: Walpole, Radcliffe and Lewis

Romantic-era Gothic: Coleridge, Byron and Mary Shelley

Nineteenth-century Gothic: Emily Bronte, Poe, Collins and Stevenson

From the Fin de Siecle to Modern Gothic: Stoker, Wells, M.R. James and Lovecraft

Twentieth-century American Gothic: Faulkner, King, Rice and Brite

British Gothic in the Late Twentieth Century: Carter, Ballard, Mantel and Waters

Part Four: Critical Theories and Debates

Narrative Instability and the Gothic Narrator

Female Gothic

Gothic Bodies

Nation and Empire

Part Five: References and Resources

Timeline

Further Reading

Index