Gothic literature /
New edition of bestselling introductory text outlining the history and ways of reading Gothic literature. This revised edition includes: A new chapter on Contemporary Gothic which explores the Gothic of the early twenty first century and looks at new critical developments, an updated Bibliography o...
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| Formato: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | inglês |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press
[2013].
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| Edição: | Second edition |
| Colecção: | Edinburgh critical guides to literature.
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| Acesso em linha: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt1g09zdb |
Sumário:
- Introduction: Gothic histories
- Reading the gothic
- Burke
- Freud
- Chapter 1: The gothic heyday, 1760-1820
- Defining the gothic: Otranto
- Radcliffe and Lewis
- American gothic
- Reading Frankenstein
- Chapter 2: The gothic, 1820-1865
- Gothic mutations: poetry
- Edgar Allen Poe and the American gothic
- Gothic mutations: prose
- Reading Jane Eyre
- Chapter 3: Gothic Proximities, 1865-1900
- Hidden identities: ghosts
- Gothic doubles
- Race and history: post-bellum gothic
- Reading Dracula
- Chapter 4: Twentieth century
- The ghost story as the end of gothic?
- Radio and film
- Contemporary fiction: postmodern gothic?
- Reading The Silence of the Lambs
- Chapter 5: Contemporary gothic
- Television
- Neo-Victorian gothic
- Postcolonial gothic
- Reading The Historian
- Conclusion.