Gothic literature

Smith, Andrew 1964- (Author).

Summary: This introductory study provides a thorough grounding in both the history of Gothic literature and the way in which Gothic texts have been (and can be) critically read. The book opens with a chronology and an introduction to the principal texts and key critical terms, followed by four chapters: The Gothic Heyday 1760-1820; Gothic 1820-1865; Gothic Proximities 1865-1900; and the Twentieth Century. The discussion examines how the Gothic has developed in different national contexts and in different forms, including novels, novellas, poems, and films. Each chapter concludes with a close reading of.

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ISBN: 9780748630158 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0748630155 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9780748623709 (pbk.)
ISBN: 0748623701 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9780748623693
ISBN: 0748623698
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (xxvi, 201 pages).
Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2007.

Content descriptions

General Note:	CatMonthString:jan.13 Multi-User. CatBulkString:jan.03.13
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-196) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Gothic histories -- Reading the gothic -- Burke -- Freud -- The gothic heyday 1760-1820 -- Defining the gothic: Otranto -- Radcliffe and Lewis -- American gothic -- Reading Frankenstein -- The gothic, 1820-1865 -- Gothic mutations: poetry -- Edgar Allen Poe and the American gothic -- Gothic mutations: prose -- Reading Jane Eyre -- Gothic Proximities, 1865-1900 -- Hidden identities: ghosts -- Gothic doubles -- Race and history: post-bellum gothic -- Reading Dracula -- Twentieth century -- The ghost story as the end of gothic? -- Radio and film -- Contemparary fiction: postmodern gothic? -- Reading The silence of the lambs.
Restrictions on Access Note:	Restrictions unspecified
Reproduction Note:	Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
System Details Note:	Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
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Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.