Gothic literature /

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 o...

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Main Author: Smith, Andrew, 1964- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2013
Edition:Second edition
Series:Edinburgh critical guides to literature.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • 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 Allen 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.