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A Companion to the Gothic / edited by David Punter.
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Blackwell companions to literature and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Horror tales, English--History and criticism.
- Horror tales, English.
- Horror tales, American--History and criticism.
- Horror tales, American.
- Psychological fiction--History and criticism.
- Psychological fiction.
- Gothic revival (Literature)--Great Britain.
- Gothic revival (Literature).
- Ghost stories.
- Great Britain.
- Gothic revival (Literature)--United States.
- United States.
- Ghost stories--History and criticism.
- Psychoanalysis and literature.
- Vampires in literature.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xix, 323 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers, 2001.
- Summary:
- A Companion to the Gothic provide series of stimulating insights into Gothic writing and its history and genealogy. It also offers comprehensive coverage of criticism and the various theoretical approaches the Gothic has inspired and spawned.
- The volume consists of 25 substantial essay each written by a leading scholar, and accompanied by a substantial introduction and a bibliography primary and secondary materials.
- The essays provide accounts of major author and texts, explore European and American dimensions of Gothic, Gothic painting, the British ghost story, horror fiction, psychoanalytic, historicist and feminist approaches to the Gothic, Gothic cinema and issues of counterfeit, madness and magic realism in relation to Gothic materials.
- Contents:
- In Gothic darkly: heterotopia, history, culture / Fred Botting
- The Goths in history and pre-Gothic Gothic / Robin Sowerby
- European Gothic / Neil Cornwell
- 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
- 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
- Shape and shadow: on poetry and the uncanny / David Punter.
- Gothic criticism / Chris Baldick and Robert Mighall
- Psychoanalysis and the Gothic / Michelle A. Massé
- Comic Gothic / Avril Horner and Sue Zlosnik
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0631206205
- 9780631206200
- 0631231994
- 9780631231998
- OCLC:
- 50613558
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