
Gothic Literature
Andrew Smith(Author)
Edinburgh University Press
2nd Edition
Published on 10. March 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-0-7486-4741-5 (ISBN)
Description
New edition of bestselling introductory text outlining the history and ways of reading Gothic literature
This revised edition includes:
A new chapter on Contemporary Gothic which explores the Gothic of the early twenty first century and looks at new critical developments
An updated Bibliography of critical sources and a revised Chronology
The book opens with a Chronology and an Introduction to the principal texts and key critical terms, followed by five chapters: The Gothic Heyday 1760-1820; Gothic 1820-1865; Gothic Proximities 1865-1900; Twentieth Century; and Contemporary Gothic. The discussion examines how the Gothic has developed in different national contexts and in different forms, including novels, novellas, poems, films, radio and television. Each chapter concludes with a close reading of a specific text - Frankenstein, Jane Eyre, Dracula, The Silence of the Lambs and The Historian - to illustrate ways in which contextual discussion informs critical analysis. The book ends with a Conclusion outlining possible future developments within scholarship on the Gothic.
This revised edition includes:
A new chapter on Contemporary Gothic which explores the Gothic of the early twenty first century and looks at new critical developments
An updated Bibliography of critical sources and a revised Chronology
The book opens with a Chronology and an Introduction to the principal texts and key critical terms, followed by five chapters: The Gothic Heyday 1760-1820; Gothic 1820-1865; Gothic Proximities 1865-1900; Twentieth Century; and Contemporary Gothic. The discussion examines how the Gothic has developed in different national contexts and in different forms, including novels, novellas, poems, films, radio and television. Each chapter concludes with a close reading of a specific text - Frankenstein, Jane Eyre, Dracula, The Silence of the Lambs and The Historian - to illustrate ways in which contextual discussion informs critical analysis. The book ends with a Conclusion outlining possible future developments within scholarship on the Gothic.
More details
Series
Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 136 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
345 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7486-4741-5 (9780748647415)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Andrew Smith is Professor of Nineteenth-Century English Literature at the University of Sheffield, where he co-directs the Centre for the History of the Gothic. He is the author or editor of twenty-six published books including Dickens and the Gothic (2024), Gothic Fiction and the Writing of Trauma, 1914-1934: The Ghosts of World War One (2022; winner of the Allan Lloyd Smith prize), Gothic Death 1740-1914: A Literary History (2016), The Ghost Story 1840-1920: A Cultural History (2010), Gothic Literature (2007; revised 2013), Victorian Demons (2004) and Gothic Radicalism (2000).
Content
Chronology; Introduction; Chapter 1 The Gothic Heyday, 1760-1820; Chapter 2 The Gothic, 1820-1865; Chapter 3 Gothic Proximities, 1865-1900; Chapter 4 Twentieth Century; Chapter 5 Contemporary Gothic; Conclusion; Student Resources.