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Author | : Sherri L. Brown |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2018-03-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1442277483 |
The Gothic began as a designation for barbarian tribes, was associated with the cathedrals of the High Middle Ages, was used to describe a marginalized literature in the late eighteenth century, and continues today in a variety of forms (literature, film, graphic novel, video games, and other narrative and artistic forms). Unlike other recent books in the field that focus on certain aspects of the Gothic, this work directs researchers to seminal and significant resources on all of its aspects. Annotations will help researchers determine what materials best suit their needs. A Research Guide to Gothic Literature in English covers Gothic cultural artifacts such as literature, film, graphic novels, and videogames. This authoritative guide equips researchers with valuable recent information about noteworthy resources that they can use to study the Gothic effectively and thoroughly.
Author | : Jerrold E. Hogle |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 526 |
Release | : 2002-08-29 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1107494486 |
Gothic as a form of fiction-making has played a major role in Western culture since the late eighteenth century. In this volume, fourteen world-class experts on the Gothic provide thorough and revealing accounts of this haunting-to-horrifying type of fiction from the 1760s (the decade of The Castle of Otranto, the first so-called 'Gothic story') to the end of the twentieth century (an era haunted by filmed and computerized Gothic simulations). Along the way, these essays explore the connections of Gothic fictions to political and industrial revolutions, the realistic novel, the theatre, Romantic and post-Romantic poetry, nationalism and racism from Europe to America, colonized and post-colonial populations, the rise of film and other visual technologies, the struggles between 'high' and 'popular' culture, changing psychological attitudes towards human identity, gender and sexuality, and the obscure lines between life and death, sanity and madness. The volume also includes a chronology and guides to further reading.
Author | : Kamilla Elliott |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2012-12-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1421408643 |
Examples from British writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries show how portraits became a new mode of identity for the middle class. Traditionally, kings and rulers were featured on stamps and money, the titled and affluent commissioned busts and portraits, and criminals and missing persons appeared on wanted posters. British writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, however, reworked ideas about portraiture to promote the value and agendas of the ordinary middle classes. According to Kamilla Elliott, our current practices of “picture identification” (driver’s licenses, passports, and so on) are rooted in these late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century debates. Portraiture and British Gothic Fiction examines ways writers such as Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe, Mary Shelley, and C. R. Maturin as well as artists, historians, politicians, and periodical authors dealt with changes in how social identities were understood and valued in British culture—specifically, who was represented by portraits and how they were represented as they vied for social power. Elliott investigates multiple aspects of picture identification: its politics, epistemologies, semiotics, and aesthetics, and the desires and phobias that it produces. Her extensive research not only covers Gothic literature’s best-known and most studied texts but also engages with more than 100 Gothic works in total, expanding knowledge of first-wave Gothic fiction as well as opening new windows into familiar work.
Author | : Ruth Bienstock Anolik |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2016-01-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0786498501 |
Eighteenth-century England witnessed major social and economic changes, including the commodification of property, person and text through legal containments--enclosure, coverture, primogeniture, copyright. English Gothic authors responded with tropes that worked to dispel the assurances of possession--the contested castle, the beleaguered yet enduring woman, the haunting ghost, the disjointed narrative--warning that seemingly mundane codes of ownership have menacing implications, such as the civil death of women through marriage. This book explores the masterplot of the English Gothic text as a response to the Enlightenment's rational certainty regarding possession of self, property and narrative.
Author | : Ann Radcliffe |
Publisher | : ReadHowYouWant.com |
Total Pages | : 534 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : English fiction |
ISBN | : 142703334X |
Author | : Angela Carter |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2016-09-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1784871435 |
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HELEN SIMPSON From familiar fairy tales and legends âe" Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the Beast, vampires and werewolves âe" Angela Carter has created an absorbing collection of dark, sensual, fantastic stories.
Author | : William Hughes |
Publisher | : University of Wales Press |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2018-04-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1786832356 |
Coverage of canonical and less-explored texts in fiction, film and museology. Innovative vision of how Gothic evokes the regions of Great Britain. The first work to consider Gothic and the regional experience at length.
Author | : William Hughes |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0810872285 |
Provides an extensive chronology and an introduction which explains the nature of Gothic and shows how it has evolved. Includes entries on major writers, and works of geographical variants like Irish, Scottish or Russian Gothic and Female Gothic, Queer Gothic and Science Fiction.
Author | : Maggie Kilgour |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2013-11-19 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1317761898 |
One of the central images conjured up by the gothic novel is that of a shadowy spectre slowly rising from a mysterious abyss. In The Rise of the Gothic Novel, Maggie Kilgour argues that the ghost of the gothic is now resurrected in the critical methodologies which investigate it for the revelation of buried cultural secrets. In this cogent analysis of the rise and fall of the gothic as a popular form, Kilgour juxtaposes the writings of William Godwin with Mary Wollstonecraft, and Ann Radcliffe with Matthew Lewis. She concludes with a close reading of the quintessential gothic novel, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. An impressive and highly original study, The Rise of the Gothic Novel is an invaluable contribution to the continuing literary debates which surround this influential genre.
Author | : Alison Milbank |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 365 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0198824467 |
Alison Milbank provides a complete reimagining of the Gothic literary canon to examine its engagement with theological ideas, tracing its origins to the apocalyptic critique of the Reformation female martyrs, and to the Dissolution of the monasteries, now seen as usurping authorities.