Gothic Novels
An Anthology
Nicola Trott(Editor)
Blackwell Publishers
Published in September 2005
Book
Hardback
900 pages
978-0-631-19821-5 (ISBN)
Description
This is an anthology of six foundational texts for the Gothic genre, from its inception in 1764 through to its evolution in highly developed narratives by 1820. The anthology provides headnotes and introductions that place the gothic genre in its cultural and historical context, relate works to their contemporary reception, and make distinctions between gothic and the related forms of oriental and Jacobin fiction. The texts provided are: Horace Walpole's "The Castle of Otranto" (1765), Clara Reeve's "The Old English Baron" (1778), William Beckford's "Vathek" (1786), Ann Radcliffe's "The Romance of the Forest" (1791), Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein, or, the Modern Prometheus" (1818), and Charles Maturin's "Tale of the Spaniard" from "Melmoth the Wanderer" (1820).
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
undergraduates, graduates and specialists in gothicism, romanticism, the novel, women's writing, general readers
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-631-19821-5 (9780631198215)
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Person
Nicola Trott is a Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Glasgow.
Content
Introduction: i) John Sutherland. ii) Nicola Trott. 1. Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto (1764). 2. Ann Radcliff, The Romance of the Forest . 3. Matthew Lewis, The Monk: A Romance . 4. Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey (1818), chapters 20-25. 5. Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (1818). 6. Charles Maturin, 'Tale of the Spaniard' from Melmoth the Wanderer (1820). Contemporary reviews and responses. Bibliography. Index.