Shilling Shockers Of The Gothic School A Study Of Chap Book Gothic Romances By Williamw Watt
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| Author | : Franz J. Potter |
| Publisher | : University of Wales Press |
| Total Pages | : 250 |
| Release | : 2021-01-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1786836726 |
This study is the first full-length study of the Gothic chapbook It contains a list of 400 Gothic chapbooks. The list provides bibliographical information as well as the location of the text. It provides biographical information on the publishers and booksellers involved in the development, production and dissemination of the Gothic chapbook.
| Author | : William Whyte Watt |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 72 |
| Release | : 1932 |
| Genre | : English fiction |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Carol Margaret Davison |
| Publisher | : University of Wales Press |
| Total Pages | : 386 |
| Release | : 2009-12-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0708322611 |
Offers an introduction to British Gothic literature. This book examines works by Gothic authors such as Horace Walpole, Matthew Lewis, Ann Radcliffe, William Godwin and Mary Shelley against the backdrop of eighteenth-and-nineteenth-century British social and political history.
| Author | : E. J. Clery |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 241 |
| Release | : 1995-02-16 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 052145316X |
A genre of supernatural fiction was among the more improbable products of the Age of Enlightenment. This book charts the troubled entry of the supernatural into fiction, and questions the historical reasons for its growing popularity in the late eighteenth century. Beginning with the notorious case of the Cock Lane ghost, a performing poltergeist who became a major attraction in London in 1762, and with Garrick's spellbinding and paradigmatic performance as the ghost-seeing Hamlet, it moves on to look at the Gothic novels of Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe, M. G. Lewis, and others, in unexpected new lights. The central thesis concerns the connection between fictions of the supernatural and the growth of consumerism: not only are ghost stories successful commodities in the rapidly commercialising book market, they are also considered here as reflections on the disruptive effects of this socio-economic transformation.
| Author | : Kay Mussell |
| Publisher | : Greenwood |
| Total Pages | : 192 |
| Release | : 1981-12-23 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : |
"Anyone who has ever tried to assist a patron doing research in this field will welcome this bibliographic essay. . . . Most libraries will want and use this book." Library Journal
| Author | : Julia Briggs |
| Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
| Total Pages | : 372 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9781840142426 |
Responding to the astonishing success of J. K. Rowling and other contemporary authors, the editors of this timely volume take up the challenge of assessing the complex interplay of forces that have generated, and sometimes sustained, the popularity of children's books. Ranging from eighteenth-century chapbooks to the stories of Enid Blyton and Roald Dahl, and from science schoolbooks to Harry Potter, these essays show how authorial talent operates within its cultural context to make a children's classic.
| Author | : Louis F. Peck |
| Publisher | : Pickle Partners Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 595 |
| Release | : 2018-02-27 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 178720989X |
Matthew Lewis (17775-1818), author of The Monk—one of the most famous of gothic novels—is attracting increasing attention for his own talent and his pre-eminence in the gothic school. The gothic mode, aside from its intrinsic interest, is important because of its distinct influence in British, continental, and American literature. Yet a full-length biography of Lewis has not appeared since 1839. For the nonspecialist seeking an introduction to Romanticism and the Regency, Lewis is a valuable man to know, with his varied literary interests—poetry, the novel, drama—and his wide acquaintance: royalty, the peerage, literary celebrities like Byron, Scott, Shelley, Sheridan, and the theatrical world. As a writer he showed uncanny anticipation of popular literary trends and a talent for the spectacular. This new biography, based on information which has appeared since 1839 and on new material, presents the whole man, not a selection of eccentricities. It includes treatment of all his works and a section of newly edited correspondence.
| Author | : Glennis Byron |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 582 |
| Release | : 2013-10-08 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1135053065 |
The Gothic World offers an overview of this popular field whilst also extending critical debate in exciting new directions such as film, politics, fashion, architecture, fine art and cyberculture. Structured around the principles of time, space and practice, and including a detailed general introduction, the five sections look at: Gothic Histories Gothic Spaces Gothic Readers and Writers Gothic Spectacle Contemporary Impulses. The Gothic World seeks to account for the Gothic as a multi-faceted, multi-dimensional force, as a style, an aesthetic experience and a mode of cultural expression that traverses genres, forms, media, disciplines and national boundaries and creates, indeed, its own ‘World’.
| Author | : Steven Earl Forry |
| Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Total Pages | : 328 |
| Release | : 2016-11-11 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1512802034 |
The Frankenstein we know is not Mary Shelley's creature at all. Rather it is an amalgam of over 200 years of images and dramatizations that range from the ghoulish fiends of nineteenth-century sensation dramas to Boris Karloff's movie monster to Mel Brooks's tap-dancing giant. These versions treat the Frankenstein myth with varying levels of horror, hysteria, and humor, but all of them attest to its enduring power. In Hideous Progenies, Steven Earl Forry offers a historical overview of the legend's transformation over time—beginning with Shelley's original and the earliest popular dramatizations of it (which transformed the myth, adding a burlesque quality and simplifying its moral allegory) and continuing on through the advent of cinema. He also documents this development with actual texts of seven pre-1931 dramatizations, a sampling of cartoons and playbills, and a shooting script for the first cinematic version, Thomas Edison's Frankenstein (1910). Forry's rare materials and interesting survey offer a valuable resource for scholars and students of theater history, literary history, and popular culture.
| Author | : Diane Long Hoeveler |
| Publisher | : University of Wales Press |
| Total Pages | : 375 |
| Release | : 2014-05-15 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1783160497 |
The Gothic Ideology argues that in order to modernize and secularize, the British Protestant imaginary needed an 'other' against which it could define itself as a culture and a nation with distinct boundaries. The 'Gothic ideology' is identified as an intense religious anxiety, produced by the aftershocks of the Protestant reformation, the Catholic Counter-Reformation, and the dynastic upheavals produced by both events in England, Germany, and France, and was played out in hundreds of Gothic texts published throughout Europe between the mid-eighteenth century and 1880. This book is the first to read the Gothic ideology through the historical context of both King Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries and the extensive French anti-clerical and pornographic works that were well-known to Horace Walpole and Matthew Lewis. The book argues that Gothic was thoroughly invested in a crude form of anti-Catholicism that fed lower class prejudices against the passage of a variety of Catholic Relief Acts that had been pending in Parliament since 1788 and finally passed in 1829.
