The Cambridge companion to gothic fiction /

Gothic as a form of fiction-making has played a major role in Western culture since the late eighteenth century. In this 2002 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 Ca...

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Other Authors: Hogle, Jerrold E. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2002
Cambridge : 2002
Series:Cambridge companions to literature
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : The Gothic in western culture / Jerrold E. Hogle
  • The genesis of "Gothic" fiction / E.J. Clery
  • The 1790s : the effulgence of Gothic / Robert Miles
  • French and German Gothic : the beginnings / Terry Hale
  • Gothic fictions and Romantic writing in Britain / Michael Gamer
  • Scottish and Irish Gothic / David Punter
  • English Gothic theatre / Jeffrey N. Cox
  • The Victorian Gothic in English novels and stories, 1830-1880 / Alison Milbank
  • The rise of American Gothic / Eric Savoy
  • British Gothic fiction, 1885-1930 / Kelly Hurley
  • The Gothic on screen / Misha Kavka
  • Colonial and postcolonial Gothic : the Caribbean / Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert
  • The contemporary Gothic : why we need it / Steven Bruhm
  • Aftergothic : consumption, machines, and black holes / Fred Botting