The Gothic Tradition in Fiction / Elizabeth Macandrew.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Macandrew, Elizabeth, author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1979]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Traces the appearance and use of certain literary devices through two hundred years, showing that authors writing in the gothic tradition employ the same structures, imagery, and methods of characterization because their works have a common purpose - the exploration of human nature.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Part One. The Shape of Ideas

Chapter One: Introductory: Gothic Literature-What It Is and Why

Chapter Two: Characters-The Reflected Self

Chapter Three: Characters-The Split Personality

Chapter Four: Setting and Narrative Structure-"Far Other Worlds and Other Seas"

Part Two. The Continuing Tradition

Chapter Five: The Victorian Hall of Mirrors

Epilogue: The Twentieth Century

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

0-231-89421-X

OCLC:

1035308729