York Notes Companions Gothic Literature, 1st edition

Published by Pearson (July 26, 2011) © 2011

  • Susan Chaplin Department of Cultural Studies, Leeds Metropolitan University

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York Notes Companions Gothic Literature
Published 2011

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The York Notes Companion to Gothic Literature explores the genre from its origins in Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto, through Romantic and Victorian Gothic to modernist and postmodernist re-imaginings of the form, analysing key debates such as Female Gothic and the Gothic narrator. Examining classic works, including The Mysteries of Udolpho and Frankenstein, alongside literature much newer to the canon, the Companion offers close analysis of texts, and guides students through key literary theories and debates. Connecting texts with their historical and scholarly contexts, this is essential reading for any student of Gothic literature.
  • Part One: Introduction
  • Part Two: A Cultural Overview
  • Part Three: Texts, Writers and Contexts
  • Eighteenth-century Gothic: Walpole, Radcliffe and Lewis
  • Romantic-era Gothic: Coleridge, Byron and Mary Shelley
  • Nineteenth-century Gothic: Emily Bronte, Poe, Collins and Stevenson
  • From the Fin de Siecle to Modern Gothic: Stoker, Wells, M.R. James and Lovecraft
  • Twentieth-century American Gothic: Faulkner, King, Rice and Brite
  • British Gothic in the Late Twentieth Century: Carter, Ballard, Mantel and Waters
  • Part Four: Critical Theories and Debates
  • Narrative Instability and the Gothic Narrator
  • Female Gothic
  • Gothic Bodies
  • Nation and Empire
  • Part Five: References and Resources
  • Timeline
  • Further Reading
  • Index

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