| Description |
xix, 323 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Blackwell companions to literature and culture
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : Ghost of history -- pt. 1. Gothic backgrounds -- In Gothic darkly : Heterotopia, history, culture / Fred Botting -- Goths in history and pre-Gothic Gothic / Robin Sowerby -- European Gothic / Neil Cornwell -- pt. 2. "Original" gothic -- Ann Radcliffe and Matthew Lewis / Robert Miles -- Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein / Nora Crook -- Walter Scott, James Hogg and Scottish Gothic / Ian Duncan -- Irish Gothic / Victor Sage -- Political culture of Gothic drama / David Worrall -- pt. 3. Nineteenth- and twentieth-century transmutations -- Nineteenth-century American Gothic / Allan Lloyd-Smith -- Ghost story / Julia Briggs -- Gothic in the 1890s / Glennis Byron -- Fictional vampires in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / William Hughes -- Horror fiction : in search of a definition / Clive Bloom -- Love bites : contemporary women's vampire fictions / Gina Wisker -- Gothic film / Heidi Kaye -- Shape and shadow : on poetry and the uncanny / David Punter -- pt. 4. Gothic theory and genre -- Gothic criticism / Chris Baldick, Robert Mighall -- Psychoanalysis and the Gothic / Michelle A. Masse -- Comic Gothic / Avril Horner, Sue Zlosnik -- pt. 5. Continuing debate -- Can you forgive her? The gothic heroine and her critics / Kate Ferguson Ellis -- Picture this : Steven King's queer gothic / Steven Brahm -- Seeing things : gothic and the madness of interpretation / Scott Brewster -- Gothic ghost of the counterfeit and the progress of abjection / Jerrold E. Hog le -- Magical realism of the contemporary Gothic / Lucile Armitt. |
| Subject |
Horror tales, English -- History and criticism.
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Horror tales, American -- History and criticism.
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Psychological fiction -- History and criticism.
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Gothic revival (Literature) -- Great Britain.
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Gothic revival (Literature) -- United States.
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Ghost stories -- History and criticism.
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Psychoanalysis and literature.
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Vampires in literature.
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| Added Author |
Punter, David.
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| ISBN |
0631206205 (acid-free paper) |
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