The Gothic novel, 1790-1830 : plot summaries and index to motifs / Ann B. Tracy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tracy, Ann Blaisdell, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--19th century--Stories, plots, etc.

English fiction.

Gothic revival (Literature)--Great Britain.

Gothic revival (Literature).

English fiction--18th century--Stories, plots, etc.

Horror tales, English--Stories, plots, etc.

Horror tales, English.

English fiction--Themes, motives--Indexes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 1981.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A research guide for specialists in the Gothic novel, the Romantic movement, the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novel, and popular culture, this work contains summaries of more than two hundred novels, reputed to be Gothic, published in English between 1790 and 1830. Also included are indexes of titles and characters and an extensive index of characteristic objects, motifs, and themes that recur in the novels -- such as corpses, bloody and otherwise, dungeons, secret passageways, filicide, fratricide, infanticide, matricide, patricide, and suicide.The novels described, including those by s

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Summaries; Index to Motifs; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Index of Characters; Heroes; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z; Heroines; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Villains/Villainesses; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z; Index of Titles; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Include indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780813186689

0813186684

9780813164793

0813164796

OCLC:

900345043