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Andrew Smith, William Hughes - Victorian Gothic, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

Victorian Gothic

An Edinburgh Companion

Av Andrew Smith, William Hughes

Del i serien Edinburgh Companions to the Gothic

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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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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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This collection of essays should be a 'must' for those whose interests focus on the late Victorian cultural world, as it is observed through the lense of the Gothic. In private or in academic and public libraries, this book will doubtless enjoy a long shelf life.

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