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Author | : Clive Bloom |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2010-04-07 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1441153403 |
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In the middle of the eighteenth century the Gothic became the universal language of architecture, painting and literature, expressing a love not only of ruins, decay and medieval pageantry, but also the drug-induced monsters of the mind. By explaining the international dimension of Gothicism and dealing in detail with German, French and American authors, Gothic Histories demonstrates the development of the genre in every area of art and includes original research on Gothic theatre, spiritualism, 'ghost seeing' and spirit photography and the central impact of penny-dreadful writers on the genre, while also including a host of forgotten or ignored authors and their biographies. Gothic Histories is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of the Gothic and its literary double, the horror genre, leading the reader from their origins in the haunted landscapes of the Romantics through Frankenstein and Dracula to the very different worlds of Hannibal Lecter and Goth culture. Comprehensive and up-to-date, it is a fascinating guide to the Gothic and horror in film, fiction and popular culture.
Author | : Leila Taylor |
Publisher | : Watkins Media Limited |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2019-11-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1912248557 |
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A fascinating journey into the dark heart of the American gothic that analyzes its connections to race and racism in 21st-century America Haunted houses, bitter revenants and muffled heartbeats under floorboards—the American gothic is a macabre tale based on a true story. Part memoir and part cultural critique, Darkly explores American culture’s inevitable gothicity in the traces left from chattel slavery. The persistence of white supremacy and the ubiquity of Black death feeds a national culture of terror and a perpetual undercurrent of mourning. If the gothic narrative is metabolized fear, if the goth aesthetic is
Author | : Roger Luckhurst |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2021-11-16 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0691229163 |
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"Crumbling ruins, undead fiends, dark alleys and forests teeming with horrors seen and unseen: the tendrils of the Gothic have crept out of the architecture of churches, mosques and grand houses and into suburban malls, overcrowded cities, the deserted corners of the world and beyond, taking the shape of monsters from Beowulf to Gojira, Cthulhu or the wendigo to our own terrifying, warped reflections. Across time, form and media, this book traces the weaving path of the Gothic from the shadows of history to the very heart of popular culture today"--
Author | : Clive Bloom |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 2010-06-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1847060501 |
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A comprehensive guide to the history of Gothic from the eighteenth century to the present day that includes original research. >
Author | : Diana Wallace |
Publisher | : University of Wales Press |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2013-03-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1783160314 |
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Female Gothic Histories traces the development of women's Gothic historical fiction from Sophia Lee's The Recess in the late eighteenth century through the work of Elizabeth Gaskell, Vernon Lee, Daphne du Maurier and Victoria Holt to the bestselling novels of Sarah Waters in the twenty-first century. Often left out of traditional historical narratives, women writers have turned to Gothic historical fiction as a mode of writing which can both reinsert them into history and symbolise their exclusion. This study breaks new ground in bringing together thinking about the Gothic and the historical novel, and in combining psychoanalytic theory with historical contextualisation.
Author | : Markman Ellis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780748611959 |
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"Written with an undergraduate audience in mind, this text offers a synthesis of the main topics of Gothic interest and clearly argued summaries of critical debate. It signals its difference from recent psychoanalytic readings of Gothic and argues instead for a more complex, multilayered approach via an historicist reading of gothic fiction. Illustrated with ten black and white plates and including an up-to-date bibliography, this will be an ideal text for all those with an interest in the Gothic."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Jarlath Killeen |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2013-12-11 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0748690816 |
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Provides 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 | : Jarlath Killeen |
Publisher | : University of Wales Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2009-07-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0708322441 |
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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.
Author | : Charles L. Crow |
Publisher | : University of Wales Press |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2009-04-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0708322484 |
Download History of the Gothic: American Gothic Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Defining the American gothic tradition both within the context of the major movements of intellectual history over the past three-hundred years, as well as within the issues critical to American culture, this comprehensive volume covers a diverse terrain of well-known American writers, from Poe to Faulkner to Toni Morrison and Cormac McCarthy. Charles L. Crow demonstrates how the gothic provides a forum for discussing key issues of changing American culture, explores forbidden subjects, and provides a voice for the repressed and silenced.
Author | : F. Potter |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2005-09-27 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0230512720 |
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To better understand and contextualise the twilight of the Gothic genre during the 1920s and 1830s, The History of Gothic Publishing, 1800-1835: Exhuming the Trade examines the disreputable aspects of the Gothic trade from its horrid bluebooks to the desperate hack writers who created the short tales of terror. From the Gothic publishers to the circulating libraries, this study explores the conflict between the canon and the twilight, and between the disreputable and the moral.