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Gothic / Fred Botting.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Botting, Fred.
- Series:
- New critical idiom
- The new critical idiom
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Horror tales, English--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
- Horror tales, English.
- Horror tales, American--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
- Horror tales, American.
- Gothic revival (Literature)--English-speaking countries.
- Gothic revival (Literature).
- English-speaking countries.
- Literary form.
- Physical Description:
- 224 pages ; 20 cm.
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2014.
- Summary:
- Already one of the definitive books covering the popular field of gothic studies, this extensively revised new edition offers a wealth of new material on the topic: two new chapters plot the genre's major developments through the twentieth and into the twenty-first century, identifying key texts and contexts, and charting crucial relationships with cognate genres in literature, popular culture and media (from modernism to romance, cinema, horror, SF and postmodernism). A new introduction offers a precise theoretical and historical overview of the main patterns, effects and significance of gothic fiction and its criticism. This book contains additional material on American gothic, women's writing and film, and is updated in relation to media and technology with further discussion of stage sensations and photography as well as engaging with all major texts and criticism since initial publication in 1995. With the added benefit of series features such as an annotated further reading section, this remains the ideal guide to the gothic. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 Introduction: negative aesthetics 1
- 2 Gothic origins 20
- 3 Gothic forms 41
- 4 Gothic writing in the 1790s 57
- 5 Romantic transformations 83
- 6 Homely gothic 104
- 7 Gothic returns in the 1890s 128
- 8 Phantomodernisms 147
- 9 Consuming monsters 171.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780415831710
- 0415831717
- 9780415831727
- 0415831725
- OCLC:
- 842307491
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