Gothic: Eighteenth-century Gothic : Radcliffe, reader, writer, romancer

Gothic: Eighteenth-century Gothic : Radcliffe, reader, writer, romancer
Author: Fred Botting
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2004
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780415251143

This collection brings together key writings which convey the breadth of what is understood to be Gothic, and the ways in which it has produced, reinforced, and undermined received ideas about literature and culture. In addition to its interests in the late eighteenth-century origins of the form, this collection anthologizes path-breaking essays on most aspects of gothic production, including some of its nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first century manifestations across a broad range of cultural media.

Gothic: Nineteenth-century Gothic : at home with the vampire

Gothic: Nineteenth-century Gothic : at home with the vampire
Author: Fred Botting
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2004
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780415251150

This collection brings together key writings which convey the breadth of what is understood to be Gothic, and the ways in which it has produced, reinforced, and undermined received ideas about literature and culture. In addition to its interests in the late eighteenth-century origins of the form, this collection anthologizes path-breaking essays on most aspects of gothic production, including some of its nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first century manifestations across a broad range of cultural media.

The Gothic Novel and the Stage

The Gothic Novel and the Stage
Author: Francesca Saggini
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2015-08-12
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317319516

In this ground-breaking study Saggini explores the relationship between the late eighteenth-century novel and the theatre, arguing that the implicit theatricality of the Gothic novel made it an obvious source from which dramatists could take ideas. Similarly, elements of the theatre provided inspiration to novelists.

History of the Gothic: Gothic Literature 1764-1824

History of the Gothic: Gothic Literature 1764-1824
Author: Carol Margaret Davison
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Total Pages: 387
Release: 2009-06-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1783163879

This title offers a detailed yet accessible introduction to classic British Gothic literature and the popular sub-category of the Female Gothic designed for the student reader. Works by such classic Gothic authors as Horace Walpole, Matthew Lewis, Ann Radcliffe, William Godwin, and Mary Shelley are examined against the backdrop of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British social and political history and significant intellectual/cultural developments. Identification and interpretation of the Gothic’s variously reconfigured major motifs and conventions is provided alongside suggestions for further critical reading, a timeline of notable Gothic-related publications, and consideration of various theoretical approaches.

The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction

The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction
Author: Jayashree Kamblé
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 553
Release: 2020-08-11
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317041941

Popular romance fiction constitutes the largest segment of the global book market. Bringing together an international group of scholars, The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction offers a ground-breaking exploration of this global genre and its remarkable readership. In recognition of the diversity of the form, the Companion provides a history of the genre, an overview of disciplinary approaches to studying romance fiction, and critical analyses of important subgenres, themes, and topics. It also highlights new and understudied avenues of inquiry for future research in this vibrant and still-emerging field. The first systematic, comprehensive resource on romance fiction, this Companion will be invaluable to students and scholars, and accessible to romance readers.

William Blake's Gothic imagination

William Blake's Gothic imagination
Author: Chris Bundock
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2018-04-12
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1526121964

While overlooked by extant studies of the Gothic, William Blake’s literary and visual oeuvre embodies the same obsessions and fears that inform the Gothic revival with which he was contemporary.

The Handbook of the Gothic

The Handbook of the Gothic
Author: Marie Mulvey-Roberts
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 379
Release: 2016-11-09
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0230239439

This revised new edition of The Handbook of the Gothic contains over one hundred entries on Gothic writers, themes, terms, concepts, contexts and locations, featuring new entries on writers including Stephen King and Wilkie Collins, new genres and a new Preface which situates the handbook within current studies of the Gothic.

Transnational Railway Cultures

Transnational Railway Cultures
Author: Benjamin Fraser
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2021-10-15
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 1789209196

Since the advent of train travel, railways have compressed space and crossed national boundaries to become transnational icons, evoking hope, dread, progress, or obsolescence in different cultural domains. Spanning five continents and a diverse range of contexts, this collection offers an unprecedentedly broad survey of global representations of trains. From experimental novels to Hollywood blockbusters, the works studied here chart fascinating routes across a remarkably varied cultural landscape.

Triptych

Triptych
Author: Larissa Wodtke
Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2017-02-21
Genre: Music
ISBN: 191092489X

The UK alternative rock band, Manic Street Preachers, were and remain one of the most interesting, significant, and best-loved bands of the past thirty years. Their third album The Holy Bible (1994) is generally acknowledged to be their most enduring and fascinating work, and one of the most compelling and challenging records of the nineties. Triptych reconsiders The Holy Bible from three separate, intersecting angles, combining the personal with the political, history with memory, and popular accessibility with intellectual attention to the album's depth and complexity.

Ann Radcliffe

Ann Radcliffe
Author: Robert Miles
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1995
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780719038297

To her contemporaries, Ann Radcliffe was 'The Great Enchantress'. Her wild and stormy Gothic romances made her one of the most popular and successful writers of the later eighteenth century.