Title The Gothic / David Punter and Glennis Byron

Published Malden, Mass. ; Oxford : Blackwell, 2004

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Description xx, 315 pages ; 23 cm Series Blackwell guides to literature Blackwell guides to literature. Contents Machine derived contents note: Contents -- 1. How to Use This Book -- 2. Chronology -- 3. Introduction -- 4. Backgrounds and Contexts -- Civilisation and the Goths -- Gothic in the Eighteenth Century -- Gothic and Romantic -- Science, Industry and the Gothic -- Victorian Gothic -- Art and Architecture -- Gothic and Decadence -- Imperial Gothic -- Gothic Postmodernism -- Postcolonial Gothic -- Goths and Gothic Subcultures -- Gothic Film -- Gothic and the Graphic Novel -- 5. Writers of Gothic -- William Harrison Ainsworth (1805-82) -- Jane Austen (1775-1817) -- J. G. Ballard (1930-) -- Iain Banks (1954-) -- John Banville (1945-) -- Clive Barker (1952-) -- William Beckford (1760-1844) -- E. F. Benson (1867-1940) -- Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) -- Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951) -- Robert Bloch (1917-1994) -- Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) -- Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835-1915) -- Charlotte Bront ͡(1816-1855) and Emily Bront ͡(1818-1848) -- Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810) -- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873) -- James Branch Cabell (1879-1958) -- Ramsey Campbell (1946-) -- Angela Carter (1940-1992) -- Robert W. Chambers (1865-1933) -- Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) -- Marie Corelli (1855-1924) -- Charlotte Dacre (1771/1772?-1825) -- Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) -- August Derleth (1909-1971) -- Charles Dickens (1812-1870) -- 'Isak Dinesen' (1885-1962) -- Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) -- Lord Dunsany (1878-1957) -- Bret Easton Ellis (1964-) -- William Faulkner (1897-1962) -- Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865) -- William Gibson (1948-) -- William Godwin (1756-1836) -- H. Rider Haggard (1856-1925) -- Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) -- James Herbert (1943-) -- William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918) -- E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) -- James Hogg (1770-1835) -- Washington Irving (1783-1859) -- G. P. R. James (1799-1860) -- Henry James (1843-1916) -- M. R. James (1862-1936) -- Stephen King (1947-) -- Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) -- Francis Lathom (1777-1832) -- J. Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) -- Sophia Lee (1750-1824) -- Vernon Lee (1856-1935) -- M. G. Lewis (1775-1818) -- David Lindsay (1878-1945) -- H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) -- George MacDonald (1824-1905) -- Arthur Machen (1863-1947) -- James Macpherson (1736-1796) -- Richard Matheson (1926-) -- Charles Robert Maturin (1780-1824) -- Herman Melville (1819-1891) -- Joyce Carol Oates (1938-) -- Margaret Oliphant (1828-1897) -- Mervyn Peake (1911-1968) -- Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) -- John Polidori (1795-1821) -- Radcliffe, Ann (1764-1823) -- Reeve, Clara (1729-1807) -- G. W. M. Reynolds (1814-1879) -- Anne Rice (1941-) -- Walter Scott (1771-1832) -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) -- Charlotte Smith (1740-1806) -- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) -- Bram Stoker (1847-1912) -- Horace Walpole (1717-1797) -- H. G. Wells (1866-1946) -- Edith Wharton (1862-1937) -- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) -- 6. Key Works -- Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto (1764) -- William Beckford, Vathek (1786) -- Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) -- William Godwin, Caleb Williams (1794) -- M. G. Lewis, The Monk (1796) -- Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (1818, revised 1831) -- C. R. Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer (1820) -- James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824) -- Emily Bront,͡ Wuthering Heights (1847) -- Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White (1860) -- Sheridan Le Fanu, Uncle Silas (1864) -- Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) -- Bram Stoker, Dracula (1897) -- Henry James, The Turn of the Screw (1898) -- Robert Bloch, Psycho (1959) -- Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire (1976) -- Stephen King, The Shining (1977) -- Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho (1991) -- 7. Themes and Topics -- The Haunted Castle -- The Monster -- The Vampire -- Persecution and Paranoia -- Female Gothic -- The Uncanny -- The History of Abuse -- Hallucination and the Narcotic -- 8. Guide to Further Reading -- Index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Gothic revival (Literature) -- English-speaking countries. Gothic revival (Literature) -- Great Britain. Horror tales, American -- History and criticism. Gothic revival (Literature) -- United States. Horror tales, English -- History and criticism. Author Byron, Glennis, 1955- LC no. 2003012537 ISBN 0631220623 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0631220631

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