Romantic Gothic
An Edinburgh Companion
Published on 16. November 2015
Book
Hardback
272 pages
978-0-7486-9674-1 (ISBN)
Description
Though once conceived of as mutually exclusive categories, Romanticism and the Gothic share a long and complex history of reaction and interaction, avowal and disavowal, influence and exchange. Extending recent critical interrogations of the Gothic / Romantic divide, this collection of essays provides a thorough overview of the manifestly Gothic impulses in Romantic-era literary culture, from the graveyard verse of the 1740s, through the heady politics of the later eighteenth century, and into the writings of the second-generation Romantic poets. Divided into three sections - Gothic Modes and Forms'; 'National and International Borders'; and 'Reading the Romantic Gothic' - the volume comprises 18 original essays and a detailed introductory essay by an international cast of new and established scholars in the field. As much an introduction to Gothic writing of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries as it is a contribution to scholarly debates concerning the relationship between the Gothic and the Romantic, Romantic Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion is an indispensable resource for both students and scholars of British, American and European literary culture in the period 1740-1830.
Reviews / Votes
...a remarkable contribution to its field. -- Lisa Fischer * Review 19 * Romantic Gothic is directed throughout by exciting new research and original lines of enquiry, featuring new interdisciplinary work on Gothic's engagements with science, theology, and architecture, and introducing sophisticated transnational perspectives. It will reshape critical understanding of the interlaced styles, and cultures, of Romanticism and Gothic fiction, poetry, and drama. -- Fiona Robertson * St Mary's University *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
2 black and white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 239 mm
Width: 163 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
839 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7486-9674-1 (9780748696741)
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Persons
Angela Wright is Professor of Romantic Literature at the University of Sheffield, and currently co-President of the International Gothic Association. A specialist in Romanticism and the Gothic, her previous publications include Gothic Fiction (Palgrave, 2007), Britain, France and the Gothic, 1764-1820: The Import of Terror (Cambridge University Press, 2013); and, with Dale Townshend (eds.) Ann Radcliffe, Romanticism and the Gothic (Cambridge University Press, 2014). Dale Townshend is Senior Lecturer in Gothic and Romantic Studies at the University of Stirling, and director of the MLitt in The Gothic Imagination. His recent publications include The Gothic World (with Glennis Byron; Routledge, 2014); Ann Radcliffe, Romanticism and the Gothic (with Angela Wright; Cambridge University Press, 2014); and Terror and Wonder: The Gothic Imagination (British Library Publishing, 2014). He is currently at work on a monograph entitled Gothic Antiquity: History, Romance and the Architectural Imagination, 1760-1840.
Content
Notes on Contributors; 1. Gothic and Romantic: An Historical Overview, Dale Townshend and Angela Wright; Part I: Gothic Modes and Forms; 1. Graveyard Writing and the Rise of the Gothic, Vincent Quinn; 2. Gothic Romance, Deborah Russell; 3.The Gothic Stage: Visions of Instability, Performances of Anxiety, Diego Saglia; 4. Gothic Poetry and First-Generation Romanticism, Joel Faflak; 5. Gothic and Second-Generation Romanticism: Lord Byron, P. B. Shelley, John Polidori and Mary Shelley, Jerrold E. Hogle; 6. Political Gothic Fiction, Robert Miles; 7. Shorter Gothic Fictions: Ballads and Chapbooks, Tales and Fragments, Douglass H. Thomson and Diane Long Hoeveler; 8. Oriental Gothic, Peter Kitson; 9. Gothic Parody, Natalie Neill; Part II: National and International Borders; 1. Gothic Borders: Scotland, Ireland and Wales, Meiko O'Halloran; 2. Gothic Travels, Mark Bennett; 3. The Romantic and the Gothic in Europe: The Elementary Spirits in France and Germany as a vehicle for the transmission and development of the Fantastique, 1772-1835, Victor Sage; 4. American Gothic Passages, Carol Margaret Davison; Part III: Reading the Romantic Gothic; 1. Gothic and the Language of Terror, Jane Hodson; 2. Gothic Science, Andrew Smith; 3. Gender and Sexuality in Gothic Romanticism, Patrick O'Malley; 4. Gothic Forms of Time: Architecture, Romanticism, Medievalism, Tom Duggett; 5. Gothic Theology, Alison Milbank.