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Gothic literature / Andrew Smith

Author
Smith, Andrew, 1964-
Published
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2013]
Copyright Date
©2013
Edition
Second edition.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xxvi, 240 pages).
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Contents
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.
Summary
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 of critical sources and a revised Chronology. The book opens with a Chronology and an Introduction to the principal texts and key critical terms, followed by five chapters: The Gothic Heyday 1760-1820; Gothic 1820-1865; Gothic Proximities 1865-1900; Twentieth Century; and Contemporary Gothic. The discussion examines how the Gothic has developed in different national contexts and in different forms, including novels, novellas, poems, films, radio and television. Each chapter concludes with a close reading of a specific text - Frankenstein, Jane Eyre, Dracula, The Silence of the Lambs and The Historian - to illustrate ways in which contextual discussion informs critical analysis. The book ends with a Conclusion outlining possible future developments within scholarship on the Gothic. --
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ISBN
9780748647439 (electronic bk.)
0748647430 (electronic bk.)
9780748677061
0748677062
9780748658107
0748658106
9781299545632 (MyiLibrary)
1299545637 (MyiLibrary)
9780748647422 (Cloth)
0748647422 (Cloth)
0748647414 (paperback)
9780748647415 (paperback)
Note
Previous edition: 2007.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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