Victorian Gothic

An Edinburgh Companion

AvAndrew Smith,William Hughes

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

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The first multi-disciplinary scholarly consideration of the Victorian Gothic These 14 chapters, each written by an acknowledged expert in the field, provide an invaluable insight into the complex and various Gothic forms of the nineteenth century. Covering a range of diverse contexts, the chapters focus on science, medicine, Queer theory, imperialism, nationalism, and gender. Together with further chapters on the ghost story, realism, the fin de siècle, pulp fictions, sensation fiction, and the Victorian way of death, the Companion provides the most complete overview of the Victorian Gothic to date.The book is an essential resource for students and scholars working on the Gothic, Victorian literature and culture, and critical theory.Key Features*First multi-authored thorough exploration of the Victorian Gothic*Original research in all chapters*Sets the agenda for future scholarship in the field*Pedagogically awareKey WordsVictorian, Gothic, Science, Gender, Nationalism, Death, Supernatural, Ghost, Death

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Utgivningsdatum:2012-04-04
Mått:156 x 234 x 21 mm
Vikt:557 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Edinburgh Companions to the Gothic
Antal sidor:272
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9780748642496

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Andrew Smith is Professor of Nineteenth-Century English Literature at the University of Sheffield, where he co-directs the Centre for the History of the Gothic. He is the author or editor of twenty-six published books including Dickens and the Gothic (2024), Gothic Fiction and the Writing of Trauma, 1914-1934: The Ghosts of World War One (2022; winner of the Allan Lloyd Smith prize), Gothic Death 1740-1914: A Literary History (2016), The Ghost Story 1840-1920: A Cultural History (2010), Gothic Literature (2007; revised 2013), Victorian Demons (2004) and Gothic Radicalism (2000). William Hughes was Professor of Literature in English at the University of Macau and is currently an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of East Anglia. He is a Past President of the International Gothic Association and the author or editor of more than 20 books including Key Concepts in Victorian Studies (2023), The Dome of Thought: Phrenology and the Nineteenth Century Popular Imagination (2022) and Key Concepts in the Gothic (2018).

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Very professionally edited by two world leaders in Gothic studies, this collection offers well-written, sharply documented, and "heart of the matter" accounts by experts on each significant realm of the Victorian Gothic, along with an excellent bibliography of further readings. It is therefore a highly valuable book for students of the Gothic world-wide.

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Locating the Victorian Gothic - Andrew Smith and William Hughes; Realism and the Victorian Gothic: Objects of Terror Transformed - Martin Willis; Sensation Fiction: A Peep Behind the Veil - Laurence Talairach-Vielmas; Victorian Gothic Pulp Fiction - Jarlath Killeen; Victorian Gothic Drama - Diane Long Hoeveler; Victorian Gothic poetry: The Corpse's Text - Caroline Franklin and Michael Franklin; The Victorian Ghost Story - Nick Freeman; Victorian Gothic and National Identity - Avril Horner; The Victorian Gothic and Gender - Carol Margaret Davison; Queer Victorian Gothic - Ardel Thomas; Victorian Gothic Death - Andrew Smith; Science and the Gothic - Kelly Hurley; Victorian Medicine and the Gothic -William Hughes; Imperial Gothic - Patrick Brantlinger; Fin de Siècle Gothic - Vicky Margree and Bryony Randall; Index.