The Cambridge History of the Gothic 3 Volume Hardback Set
Three-volume set
Published on 21. October 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
1800 pages
978-1-108-66201-7 (ISBN)
Description
How to write the history of a cultural mode that, for all its abiding fascination with the past, has challenged and complicated received notions of history from the very start? The Cambridge History of the Gothic rises to this challenge, charting the history of the Gothic even as it reflects continuously upon the mode's tendency to question, subvert and render incomplete all linear historical narratives. Taken together, the three chronologically sequenced volumes in the series provide a rigorous account of the origins, efflorescence and proliferation of the Gothic imagination, from its earliest manifestations in European history through to the present day. Written by an international cast of contributors, the chapters bring fresh scholarly attention to bear upon established Gothic themes while also drawing attention to new critical concerns. As such, they are of relevance to the general reader, the student and the established scholar alike.
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Language
English
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Cambridge
United Kingdom
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Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
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Height: 248 mm
Width: 240 mm
Thickness: 108 mm
Weight
3152 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-108-66201-7 (9781108662017)
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Angela Wright is Professor of Romantic Literature at the University of Sheffield, and a former co-President of the International Gothic Association (IGA). Her books include Britain, France and the Gothic: The Import of Terror, 1764-1820 (Cambridge University Press, 2013), Mary Shelley (University of Wales Press, 2018), and the co-edited volumes Ann Radcliffe, Romanticism and the Gothic (2014, with Dale Townshend) and Romantic Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion (2015, with Dale Townshend). Dale Townshend is Professor of Gothic Literature in the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies, Manchester Metropolitan University. He has published widely on Gothic writing of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. His most recent monograph is Gothic Antiquity: History, Romance, and the Architectural Imagination, 1760-1840 (2019). Catherine Spooner is Professor of Literature and Culture at Lancaster University. She has previously published six books; the most recent, Post-Millennial Gothic: Comedy, Romance and the Rise of Happy Gothic (2017), was awarded the Allan Lloyd Smith Memorial Prize. She was co-president of the International Gothic Association 2013-17.
Content
Volume 1. Gothic in the Long Eighteenth Century: Introduction: the gothic in/and history; 1. The Goths in ancient history; 2. The term 'gothic' in the Long Eighteenth Century, 1680-1800; 3. The literary gothic before Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto; 4. Gothic revival architecture before Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill ; 5. Horace Walpole and the gothic; 6. Shakespeare's gothic transmigrations; 7. Reassessing the gothic / classical relationship; 8. 'A world of bad spirits': the terrors of eighteenth-century empire; 9. In their blood: the eighteenth-century gothic stage; 10. Domestic gothic writing after Horace Walpole and before Ann Radcliffe; 11. Early British gothic and the American Revolution; 12. Gothic and the French Revolution, 1789-1804; 13. The aesthetics of terror and horror: a genealogy; 14. Ann Radcliffe and Matthew Lewis; 15. The gothic novel beyond Radcliffe and Lewis; 16. Oriental gothic: imperial-commercial nightmares from the eighteenth century to the Romantic period; 17. The German 'school' of horrors: a pharmacology of the gothic; 18. Gothic and the history of sexuality; 19. Gothic art and gothic culture in the Romantic era; 20. Time in the gothic; Volume 2. Gothic in the Nineteenth Century; Introduction; 1. Gothic romanticism and the summer of 1816; 2. Fantasmagoriana: The cosmopolitan gothic and Frankenstein; 3. The mutation of the vampire in nineteenth-century gothic; 4. From romantic gothic to Victorian medievalism: 1817 and 1877; 5. Nineteenth-century gothic architectural aesthetics: A. W. N. Pugin, John Ruskin and William Morris; 6. Gothic fiction, from shilling shockers to penny bloods; 7. The theatrical gothic in the nineteenth century; 8. 'Specterology': gothic showmanship in nineteenth-century popular shows and media; 9. The gothic in Victorian poetry; 10. The genesis of the Victorian ghost story; 11. Charles dickens and the gothic; 12. Victorian domestic gothic fiction; 13. The gothic in nineteenth-century Spain; 14. The gothic in nineteenth-century Italy; 15. The gothic in nineteenth-century Scotland; 16. The gothic in nineteenth-century Ireland; 17. The gothic in nineteenth-century America; 18. Nineteenth-century British and American gothic and the history of slavery; 19. Genealogies of monstrosity: Darwin, the biology of crime and nineteenth-century British gothic literature; 20. Gothic and the coming of the railways; 21. Gothic imperialism at the fin de siecle; Volume 3. Gothic in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries; Introduction: A history of gothic studies in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries; 1. Gothic and silent cinema; 2. Gothic, the great war and the rise of modernism, 1910-1936; 3. Gothic and the American south, 1919-1962; 4. Hollywood gothic, 1930-1960; 5. Gothic and war, 1930-91; 6. Gothic and the postcolonial moment; 7. Gothic and the heritage movement in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries; 8. Gothic enchantment: The magical strain in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Anglo-American gothic; 9. Psychoanalysis and the American popular gothic, 1954-1980; 10. Gothic and the counterculture, 1958-Present; 11. Gothic television; 12. Gothic and the rise of feminism; 13. Gothic, AIDS and sexuality, 1981-present; 14. The gothic in the age of neo-liberalism, 1990-present; 15. The gothic and remix culture; 16. Postdigital gothic; 17. Gothic multiculturalism; 18. Gothic, neo-imperialism and the war on terror; 19. Global gothic 1: Islamic gothic; 20. Global gothic 2: East Asian gothic; 21. Global gothic 3: Gothic in modern Scandinavia; 22. The 'Bad Oikos': Gothic in an age of environmental crisis; 23. Gothic and the apocalyptic imagination.