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Author: Carol Margaret Davison
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Published: 2009
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780708320099
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe series provides a comprehensive introduction to the history of Gothic literature and to a variety of critical and theoretical approaches.
Author: Carol Margaret Davison
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Published: 2009-06-01
Total Pages: 387
ISBN-13: 1783163879
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Author: Jarlath Killeen
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Published: 2009-07-01
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 0708322441
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines how themes and trends associated with the early Gothic novels were diffused in many genres in the Victorian period, including the ghost story, the detective story and the adventure story.
Author: Carol Margaret Davison
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Published: 2009-12-01
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 0708322611
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffers an introduction to British Gothic literature. This book examines works by Gothic authors such as Horace Walpole, Matthew Lewis, Ann Radcliffe, William Godwin and Mary Shelley against the backdrop of eighteenth-and-nineteenth-century British social and political history.
Author: Margarita Georgieva
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013-10-17
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 1137306076
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFascination with the dark and death threats are now accepted features of contemporary fantasy and fantastic fictions for young readers. These go back to the early gothic genre in which child characters were extensively used by authors. The aim of this book is to rediscover the children in their work.
Author: T. Wein
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2002-07-22
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 1403913684
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBritish Identities, Heroic Nationalisms, and the Gothic Novel, 1764-1824 considers three interlocking developments of this period: the emergence of the Gothic novel at a time when national upheavals required the construction of a new nationalist identity, the Gothic novel's redefinition of heroes and heroism in that nationalist debate, and changes within class and gender as well as audience and author relations. The scope of this study extends beyond the confines of the novel proper to include chapbooks and illustrated redactions.
Author: Diane Long Hoeveler
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Published: 2014-05-15
Total Pages: 375
ISBN-13: 1783160497
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Gothic Ideology argues that in order to modernize and secularize, the British Protestant imaginary needed an 'other' against which it could define itself as a culture and a nation with distinct boundaries. The 'Gothic ideology' is identified as an intense religious anxiety, produced by the aftershocks of the Protestant reformation, the Catholic Counter-Reformation, and the dynastic upheavals produced by both events in England, Germany, and France, and was played out in hundreds of Gothic texts published throughout Europe between the mid-eighteenth century and 1880. This book is the first to read the Gothic ideology through the historical context of both King Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries and the extensive French anti-clerical and pornographic works that were well-known to Horace Walpole and Matthew Lewis. The book argues that Gothic was thoroughly invested in a crude form of anti-Catholicism that fed lower class prejudices against the passage of a variety of Catholic Relief Acts that had been pending in Parliament since 1788 and finally passed in 1829.
Author: Jarlath Killeen
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2013-12-11
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 0748690816
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides a new account of the emergence of Irish gothic fiction in mid-eighteenth century This book provides a robustly theorised and thoroughly historicised account of the 'beginnings' of Irish gothic fiction, maps the theoretical terrain covered by other critics, and puts forward a new history of the emergence of the genre in Ireland. The main argument the book makes is that the Irish gothic should be read in the context of the split in Irish Anglican public opinion that opened in the 1750s, and seen as a fictional instrument of liberal Anglican opinion in a changing political landscape. By providing a fully historicized account of the beginnings of the genre in Ireland, the book also addresses the theoretical controversies that have bedevilled discussion of the Irish gothic in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. The book gives ample space to the critical debate, and rigorously defends a reading of the Irish gothic as an Anglican, Patriot tradition. This reading demonstrates the connections between little-known Irish gothic fictions of the mid-eighteenth century (The Adventures of Miss Sophia Berkley and Longsword), and the Irish gothic tradition more generally, and also the gothic as a genre of global significance.
Author: Carol Margaret Davison
Publisher: Dundurn
Published: 1997-11-01
Total Pages: 434
ISBN-13: 1459721136
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of the 1997 International Association of the Fantastic in the Arts Best Non-fiction Book In 1897, Archibald Constable & Company published a novel by the unheralded Bram Stoker. That novel, Dracula, has gone on to become perhaps the most influential novel of all time. To commemorate the centennial of that great novel, Carol Margaret Davison has brought together this collection of essays by some of the world's leading scholars. The essays analyze Stoker's original novel and celebrate its legacy in popular culture. The continuing presence of Dracula and vampire fiction and films provides proof that, as Davison writes, Dracula is "alive and sucking." "Dracula is a Gothic mandala, a vast design in which multiple reflections of the elements of the genre are configured in elegant sets of symmetries. It is also a sort of lens, bringing focus and compression to diverse Gothic motifs, including not only vampirism but madness, the night, spoiled innocence, disorder in nature, sacrilege, cannibalism, necrophilia, psychic projection, the succubus, the incubus, the ruin, and the tomb. Gathering up and unifying all that came before it, and casting its great shadow over all that came and continues to come after, its influence on twentieth-century Gothic fiction and film is unique and irresistible." -from the Preface by Patrick McGrath
Author: Nick Groom
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2012-09-27
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780199586790
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThere are many interpretations of the word 'Gothic'. Nick Groom explores the rich history and chronology of the term, bringing together various underlying and disparate elements to clarify its meaning. By examining its history, he argues that we can better interpret and understand society today.
