The Gothic Tradition

The Gothic Tradition
Author: David Stevens
Publisher:
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2000
Genre: English literature
ISBN:

"The Gothic Tradition is a new title in the Cambridge Contexts in Literature series. It is designed to support the needs of advanced level students of English literature. Each title in the series has the quality, content and level endorsed by the OCR examination board. However, the texts provide the background and focus suitable for any examination board at advanced level. The series explores the contextual study of texts by concentrating on key periods, topics and comparisons in literature. Each book adopts an interactive approach and provides the background for understanding the significance of literary, historical and social contexts. Students are encouraged to investigate different interpretations that may be applied to literary texts by different readers, through a variety of activities and questions, the use of study aids, such as chronologies and glossaries, and the inclusion of anthology sections to exemplify issues." http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/cam022/2001278650.html.

Gothic America

Gothic America
Author: Teresa A. Goddu
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 242
Release: 1997
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780231108171

Goddu traces the development of the female, southern, and African-American gothic in literature between the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, placing in a new historical context Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, Hawthorne's The Blithedale Romance, Alcott's ghost stories, and Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.

The Gothic Literature and History of New England

The Gothic Literature and History of New England
Author: Faye Ringel
Publisher: Anthem Press
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2022-02
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1785279041

The Gothic Literature and History of New England surveys the history, nature and future of the Gothic mode in the region, from the witch trials through the Black Lives Matter Movement. Texts include Cotton Mather and other Puritan divines who collected folklore of the supernatural; the Frontier Gothic of Indian captivity narratives; the canonical authors of the American Renaissance such as Melville and Hawthorne; the women's ghost story tradition and the Domestic Gothic from Harriet Beecher Stowe to Charlotte Perkins Gilman to Shirley Jackson; H. P. Lovecraft; Stephen King; and writers of the current generation who respond to racial and gender issues. The work brings to the surface the religious intolerance, racism and misogyny inherent in the New England Gothic, and how these nightmares continue to haunt literature and popular cultureā€”films, television and more.

The Literature of Terror: Volume 1

The Literature of Terror: Volume 1
Author: David Punter
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2014-05-22
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 131789197X

The first edition was regarded as the definitive survey of Gothic and related terror writing in English. No other text considers this genre on such a scale and covers the theoretical perspectives so comprehensively. In the latest edition, the broad range of theoretical perspectives has been enlarged to include modern critical theories. Volume One is a thoroughly updated edition of the original text, covering the period from 1765 up to the Edwardian age, exploring the richness and literary diversity of the gothic form: from the original eighteenth-century gothic of Ann Radcliffe to the melodramatic fiction of Wilkie Collins.

The Cambridge Companion to Edgar Allan Poe

The Cambridge Companion to Edgar Allan Poe
Author: Kevin J. Hayes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2002-04-25
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780521797276

This collection of specially-commissioned essays by experts in the field explores key dimensions of Edgar Allan Poe's work and life. Contributions provide a series of alternative perspectives on one of the most enigmatic and controversial American writers. The essays, specially tailored to the needs of undergraduates, examine all of Poe's major writings, his poetry, short stories and criticism, and place his work in a variety of literary, cultural and political contexts. They situate his imaginative writings in relation to different modes of writing: humor, Gothicism, anti-slavery tracts, science fiction, the detective story, and sentimental fiction. Three chapters examine specific works: The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, 'The Fall of the House of Usher', 'The Raven', and 'Ulalume'. The volume features a detailed chronology and a comprehensive guide to further reading, and will be of interest to students and scholars alike.

The Gothic Tradition in Supernatural

The Gothic Tradition in Supernatural
Author: Melissa Edmundson
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2016-04-27
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1476624860

The CW's long-running series Supernatural follows the adventures of brothers Sam and Dean Winchester as they pursue the "family business" of hunting supernatural beings. Blending monster-of-the-week storylines with the unfolding saga of the brothers' often troubled relationship, the show represents Gothic concerns of anxiety, the monstrous, family trauma and, of course, the supernatural. The lines between human and monster, good and evil, are blurred and individual identities and motivations resist easy categorization. This collection of new essays examines how the series both incorporates and complicates Gothic elements related to traditional tropes, storytelling, women and gender issues and monstrosity.

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.

God and the Gothic

God and the Gothic
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.