Gothic Literature
1st Edition
Published on 10. March 2013
273 pages
978-0-7486-4743-9 (ISBN)
Description
This series provides accessible yet provocative introductions to a wide range of literatures. The volumes will initiate and deepen the reader''s understanding of key literary movements, periods and genres, and consider debates that inform the past, present and future of literary study. Resources such as glossaries of key terms and details of archives and internet sites are also provided, making each volume a comprehensive critical guide.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Series Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Gothic Histories
- Reading the Gothic
- Burke
- Freud
- Chapter 1: The Gothic Heyday,1760-1820
- Defining the Gothic: Otranto
- Radcliffe and Lewis
- American Gothic
- Reading Frankenstein
- Chapter 2: The Gothic, 1820-1865
- Gothic Mutations: Poetry
- Edgar Allan Poe and the American Gothic
- Gothic Mutations: Prose
- Reading Jane Eyre
- Chapter 3: Gothic Proximities, 1865-1900
- Hidden Identities: Ghosts
- Gothic Doubles
- Race and History: Post-Bellum Gothic
- Reading Dracula
- Chapter 4: Twentieth Century
- The Ghost Story as the End of Gothic?
- Radio and Film
- Contemporary Fiction: Postmodern Gothic
- Reading the Silence of the Lambs
- Chapter 5: Contemporary Gothic
- TELEVISION
- Neo-Victorian Gothic
- Postcolonial Gothic
- Reading The Historian
- Conclusion
- Student Resources
- Sample essay
- Commentary
- Glossary
- Guide to Further Reading
- Index
