Gothic: Eighteenth-century Gothic : Radcliffe, reader, writer, romancer
Gothic: Eighteenth-century Gothic : Radcliffe, reader, writer, romancer

Author: Fred Botting

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 9780415251143

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This collection brings together key writings which convey the breadth of what is understood to be Gothic, and the ways in which it has produced, reinforced, and undermined received ideas about literature and culture. In addition to its interests in the late eighteenth-century origins of the form, this collection anthologizes path-breaking essays on most aspects of gothic production, including some of its nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first century manifestations across a broad range of cultural media.

Gothic: Nineteenth-century Gothic : at home with the vampire
Gothic: Nineteenth-century Gothic : at home with the vampire

Author: Fred Botting

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 9780415251150

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This collection brings together key writings which convey the breadth of what is understood to be Gothic, and the ways in which it has produced, reinforced, and undermined received ideas about literature and culture. In addition to its interests in the late eighteenth-century origins of the form, this collection anthologizes path-breaking essays on most aspects of gothic production, including some of its nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first century manifestations across a broad range of cultural media.

The Gothic Novel and the Stage
The Gothic Novel and the Stage

Author: Francesca Saggini

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-08-12

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1317319516

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In this ground-breaking study Saggini explores the relationship between the late eighteenth-century novel and the theatre, arguing that the implicit theatricality of the Gothic novel made it an obvious source from which dramatists could take ideas. Similarly, elements of the theatre provided inspiration to novelists.

History of the Gothic: Gothic Literature 1764-1824
History of the Gothic: Gothic Literature 1764-1824

Author: Carol Margaret Davison

Publisher: University of Wales Press

Published: 2009-06-01

Total Pages: 387

ISBN-13: 1783163879

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This title offers a detailed yet accessible introduction to classic British Gothic literature and the popular sub-category of the Female Gothic designed for the student reader. Works by such classic Gothic authors as Horace Walpole, Matthew Lewis, Ann Radcliffe, William Godwin, and Mary Shelley are examined against the backdrop of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British social and political history and significant intellectual/cultural developments. Identification and interpretation of the Gothic’s variously reconfigured major motifs and conventions is provided alongside suggestions for further critical reading, a timeline of notable Gothic-related publications, and consideration of various theoretical approaches.

The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction
The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction

Author: Jayashree Kamblé

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-08-11

Total Pages: 553

ISBN-13: 1317041941

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Popular romance fiction constitutes the largest segment of the global book market. Bringing together an international group of scholars, The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction offers a ground-breaking exploration of this global genre and its remarkable readership. In recognition of the diversity of the form, the Companion provides a history of the genre, an overview of disciplinary approaches to studying romance fiction, and critical analyses of important subgenres, themes, and topics. It also highlights new and understudied avenues of inquiry for future research in this vibrant and still-emerging field. The first systematic, comprehensive resource on romance fiction, this Companion will be invaluable to students and scholars, and accessible to romance readers.

The Handbook of the Gothic
The Handbook of the Gothic

Author: Marie Mulvey-Roberts

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-11-09

Total Pages: 379

ISBN-13: 0230239439

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This revised new edition of The Handbook of the Gothic contains over one hundred entries on Gothic writers, themes, terms, concepts, contexts and locations, featuring new entries on writers including Stephen King and Wilkie Collins, new genres and a new Preface which situates the handbook within current studies of the Gothic.

William Blake's Gothic imagination
William Blake's Gothic imagination

Author: Chris Bundock

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2018-04-12

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 1526121964

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While overlooked by extant studies of the Gothic, William Blake’s literary and visual oeuvre embodies the same obsessions and fears that inform the Gothic revival with which he was contemporary.

Transnational Railway Cultures
Transnational Railway Cultures

Author: Benjamin Fraser

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2021-10-15

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 1789209196

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Since the advent of train travel, railways have compressed space and crossed national boundaries to become transnational icons, evoking hope, dread, progress, or obsolescence in different cultural domains. Spanning five continents and a diverse range of contexts, this collection offers an unprecedentedly broad survey of global representations of trains. From experimental novels to Hollywood blockbusters, the works studied here chart fascinating routes across a remarkably varied cultural landscape.

Triptych
Triptych

Author: Larissa Wodtke

Publisher: Watkins Media Limited

Published: 2017-02-21

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 191092489X

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The UK alternative rock band, Manic Street Preachers, were and remain one of the most interesting, significant, and best-loved bands of the past thirty years. Their third album The Holy Bible (1994) is generally acknowledged to be their most enduring and fascinating work, and one of the most compelling and challenging records of the nineties. Triptych reconsiders The Holy Bible from three separate, intersecting angles, combining the personal with the political, history with memory, and popular accessibility with intellectual attention to the album's depth and complexity.

Varieties of Female Gothic Vol 1
Varieties of Female Gothic Vol 1

Author: Gary Kelly

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-04-27

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 1000749894

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This text offers scholarly and critical editions of significant novels of Gothic fiction from the Romantic period. It illustrates the various forms of female Gothic literature as a vehicle for representing the modern forms of subjectivity, or complex and authentic inward experience and identity.