| Descript |
xix, 323 s. |
| Series |
Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 4 |
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Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 4
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| Contents |
Part I: In Gothic Darkly -- Heterotopia, History, Culture Fred Botting; The Goths in History and Pre-Gothic Gothic, Robin Sowerby; European Gothic, Neil Cornwell. Part II The 'Original' Gothic: Ann Radcliffe and Matthew Lewis, Robert Miles; Mary Shelley, Author of Frankenstein, Nora Crook; Walter Scott, James Hogg and Scottish Gothic, Ian Duncan; Irish Gothic -- C. R. Maturin and J.S. LeFanu, Victor Sage; The Political Culture of Gothic Drama, David Worrall. Part III Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century Transmutations: Nineteenth-century American Gothic, Allan Lloyd Smith; The Ghost Story, Julia Briggs; Gothic in the 1890s, Glennis Byron; Fictional Vampires in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, William Hughes; Horror Fiction -- In Search of a Definition, Clive Bloom; Love Bites -- Contemporary Women's Vampire Fictions, Gina Wisker; Gothic Film, Heidi Kaye. Part IV Gothic, Theory and Genre: Gothic Criticism, Chris Baldick and Robert Mighall; Psychoanalysis and the Gothic, Michelle Masse; Comic Gothic, Avril Horner and Sue Zlosnik. Part V The Continuing Debate: Can You Forgive Her? The Gothic Heroine and Her Critics, Kate Ferguson Ellis; Picture This -- Stephen King's Queer Gothic, Steven Bruhm; Seeing Things -- Gothic and the Madness of Interpretation, Scott Brewster; The Gothic Ghost of the Counterfeit and the Progress of Abjection, Jerrold E. Hogle; The Magical Realism of the Contemporary Gothic, Lucie Armitt; The Uncanny, David Punter. |
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Horror tales, English -- History and criticism.
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Horror tales, American -- History and criticism.
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Psychological fiction -- History and criticism.
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Gothic revival (Literature) -- Great Britain.
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Gothic revival (Literature) -- United States.
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Ghost stories -- History and criticism.
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Psychoanalysis and literature.
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Vampires in literature.
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| Alt Author |
Punter, David
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| ISBN |
0631231994 |
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9780631231998 |
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