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Serie: Gothic literary studies
GebondenEngels9780708321461
1-9-2009
A comparative study of British and American literature and culture in the 1790s and 1950s. It explores the republican tradition of the British Enlightenment and the effect of its translation and migration to the American colonies. Meer
GebondenEngels9780708322116
30-9-2010
Explores Postcolonial Gothic in four different locations, providing a comparative analysis of the way the Gothic has provided postcolonial writers with a means to express the anxieties of postcolonial experience and the traumatic legacies of colonialism, expressed through novels, short stories and poetry. Meer
GebondenEngels9780708322239
1-9-2009
Examines how Wilkie Collins' interest in medical matters developed through his writing through exploration of his revisions of the late eighteenth-century Gothic novel from his first sensation novels to his last novels of the 1880s. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780708320457
1-6-2009
Offers 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. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780708320693
1-6-2009
Examines how themes and trends associated with the early Gothic novels were diffused widely in many genres in the Victorian period, including the ghost story, the detective story and the adventure story. Meer
GebondenEngels9780708320914
26-9-2009
Challenges the critical view that Gothic is a vehicle for anti-Catholic, anticlerical sentiment. This book appeals the view that the Catholic motifs contained in Gothic novels (monks, nuns, abbeys, confessionals) signify anti-Catholic prejudice and anti-Church subversiveness on the part of the author and the audience. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780708320921
1-10-2009
This book explores the paradox that the Gothic (today's werewolves, vampires, and horror movies) owe their origins (and their legitimacy) to eighteenth-century interpretations of Shakespeare. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780708324028
30-6-2011
Stephen King's Gothic explores the works of the world's best-selling horror writer through the lenses offered by contemporary literary and cultural theory. Meer
GebondenEngels9780708324554
28-2-2012
Gothic Contemporaries: The Haunted Text is the first of its kind to align selected 21st century fiction with a revised understanding of the gothic through themes such as signification, communication, ethics, inheritance and currency. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780708324561
28-2-2012
Gothic Contemporaries: The Haunted Text is the first of its kind to align selected 21st century fiction with a revised understanding of the gothic through themes such as signification, communication, ethics, inheritance and currency. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780708324592
15-1-2012
This volume investigates the roles played by the concept of the uncanny, as defined by Sigmund Freud and other theorists, in the representation of lesbian and male gay sexualities and transgender in a selection of contemporary British, American and Caribbean fiction published 1980-2007. Meer
GebondenEngels9780708325728
28-2-2013
This iconoclastic book challenges and changes accepted opinions about the Gothic novel, and will introduce the British and American Reader to works hitherto unknown to them, but rivals in quality to the works of writers like Radcliffe, Lewis and Stoker. Meer
GebondenEngels9780708325742
30-3-2013
Female Gothic Histories: Gender, History and the Gothic is an innovative new study of the ways in which women writers have used Gothic historical fiction to symbolise and counter their exclusion from traditional historical narratives. Meer
GebondenEngels9780708325766
30-3-2013
Royce Mahawatte critically compares the frightening, startling and melodramatic moments in George Eliot's fiction with excerpts from Gothic and sensation novels and in doing so argues that suspenseful plotting, and Gothic figures and tropes, play a role within Eliot's ambitions for the Victorian novel. Meer
GebondenEngels9780708320082
1-4-2009
Defines the American Gothic and places it both within the context of the major movements of intellectual history and also within the context of the main issues of American culture. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780708320433
1-9-2009
This book covers Gothic writing and film from Henry James to Sarah Waters. Among its primary themes are the role of the ghost in relation to childhood and cultural mourning, the relationship between Gothic Architecture and the 'landscapes' of dream and nightmare and the interface between Gothic and Horror modes of writing. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780708320440
1-4-2009
Defines the American Gothic and places it both within the context of the major movements of intellectual history and also within the context of the critical issues of American culture. Meer
GebondenEngels9780708324073
30-6-2011
This book provides new insights into how Gothic Horror as a whole started, and encourages the reader to think of the relations between such books and films as one vibrant set of energies. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780708326084
15-5-2013
Drawing upon both Welsh- and English-language materials, Welsh Gothic explores the diverse ways in which Wales has been represented in Gothic literature from the late eighteenth century to the present day. Meer
GebondenEngels9780708320709
1-6-2009
Examines 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. Meer