Gothic Histories

Gothic Histories
Author: Clive Bloom
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2010-04-07
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1441153403

In the middle of the eighteenth century the Gothic became the universal language of architecture, painting and literature, expressing a love not only of ruins, decay and medieval pageantry, but also the drug-induced monsters of the mind. By explaining the international dimension of Gothicism and dealing in detail with German, French and American authors, Gothic Histories demonstrates the development of the genre in every area of art and includes original research on Gothic theatre, spiritualism, 'ghost seeing' and spirit photography and the central impact of penny-dreadful writers on the genre, while also including a host of forgotten or ignored authors and their biographies. Gothic Histories is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of the Gothic and its literary double, the horror genre, leading the reader from their origins in the haunted landscapes of the Romantics through Frankenstein and Dracula to the very different worlds of Hannibal Lecter and Goth culture. Comprehensive and up-to-date, it is a fascinating guide to the Gothic and horror in film, fiction and popular culture.

The History of Gothic Fiction

The History of Gothic Fiction
Author: Markman Ellis
Publisher:
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2003
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780748611959

"Written with an undergraduate audience in mind, this text offers a synthesis of the main topics of Gothic interest and clearly argued summaries of critical debate. It signals its difference from recent psychoanalytic readings of Gothic and argues instead for a more complex, multilayered approach via an historicist reading of gothic fiction. Illustrated with ten black and white plates and including an up-to-date bibliography, this will be an ideal text for all those with an interest in the Gothic."--BOOK JACKET.

Gothic Histories

Gothic Histories
Author: Clive Bloom
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2010-06-06
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1847060501

A comprehensive guide to the history of Gothic from the eighteenth century to the present day that includes original research. >

Darkly

Darkly
Author: Leila Taylor
Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2019-11-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 1912248557

A fascinating journey into the dark heart of the American gothic that analyzes its connections to race and racism in 21st-century America Haunted houses, bitter revenants and muffled heartbeats under floorboards—the American gothic is a macabre tale based on a true story. Part memoir and part cultural critique, Darkly explores American culture’s inevitable gothicity in the traces left from chattel slavery. The persistence of white supremacy and the ubiquity of Black death feeds a national culture of terror and a perpetual undercurrent of mourning. If the gothic narrative is metabolized fear, if the goth aesthetic is

Female Gothic Histories

Female Gothic Histories
Author: Diana Wallace
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2013-03-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1783160314

Female Gothic Histories traces the development of women's Gothic historical fiction from Sophia Lee's The Recess in the late eighteenth century through the work of Elizabeth Gaskell, Vernon Lee, Daphne du Maurier and Victoria Holt to the bestselling novels of Sarah Waters in the twenty-first century. Often left out of traditional historical narratives, women writers have turned to Gothic historical fiction as a mode of writing which can both reinsert them into history and symbolise their exclusion. This study breaks new ground in bringing together thinking about the Gothic and the historical novel, and in combining psychoanalytic theory with historical contextualisation.

The Dark Thread

The Dark Thread
Author: John D. Lyons
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-10-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781644531624

In The Dark Thread, scholars examine a set of important and perennial narrative motifs centered on violence within the family as they have appeared in French, English, Spanish, and American literatures. Over fourteen essays, contributors highlight the connections between works from early modernity and subsequent texts from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries, in which incidents such as murder, cannibalism, poisoning, the burial of the living, the failed burial of the dead, and subsequent apparitions of ghosts that haunt the household unite “high” and “low” cultural traditions. This book questions the traditional separation between the highly honored genre of tragedy and the less respected and generally less well-known genres of histoires tragiques, gothic tales and novels, and horror stories. Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

Gothic

Gothic
Author: Roger Luckhurst
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021-11-16
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0691229163

"Crumbling ruins, undead fiends, dark alleys and forests teeming with horrors seen and unseen: the tendrils of the Gothic have crept out of the architecture of churches, mosques and grand houses and into suburban malls, overcrowded cities, the deserted corners of the world and beyond, taking the shape of monsters from Beowulf to Gojira, Cthulhu or the wendigo to our own terrifying, warped reflections. Across time, form and media, this book traces the weaving path of the Gothic from the shadows of history to the very heart of popular culture today"--

Female Gothic Histories

Female Gothic Histories
Author: Diana Wallace
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2013-03-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0708325750

Female Gothic Histories: Gender, History and the Gothic is an innovative new study of the ways in which women writers have used Gothic historical fiction to symbolise and counter their exclusion from traditional historical narratives.

History of the Goths

History of the Goths
Author: Herwig Wolfram
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 644
Release: 1990
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780520069831

Provides an overview on the formation of the Gothic tribes, their migrations, and the later history of the Ostrogothic and Visigothic settlements.

History of the Gothic: American Gothic

History of the Gothic: American Gothic
Author: Charles L. Crow
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2009-04-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0708322484

Defining the American gothic tradition both within the context of the major movements of intellectual history over the past three-hundred years, as well as within the issues critical to American culture, this comprehensive volume covers a diverse terrain of well-known American writers, from Poe to Faulkner to Toni Morrison and Cormac McCarthy. Charles L. Crow demonstrates how the gothic provides a forum for discussing key issues of changing American culture, explores forbidden subjects, and provides a voice for the repressed and silenced.