Gothic Literary Studies – serie
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Theological Monsters
Religion and Irish Gothic
Inbunden, 2026
1203 kr
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This book explores how monsters articulate questions about the sacred in nineteenth-century Irish Gothic literature. The relationship between religion and Gothic literature has traditionally been approached through denominational readings, but this study proposes how Irish Gothic texts from Charles …
History of the Gothic: Twentieth-Century Gothic
Av Lucie Armitt
Häftad, 2009
330 kr
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Why, at a time when the majority of us no longer believe in ghosts, demons or the occult, does Gothic continue to have such a strong grasp upon literature, cinema and popular culture? This book answers the question by exploring some of the ways in which we have applied Gothic tropes to our everyday …
History of the Gothic: American Gothic
Häftad, 2009
330 kr
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Defining the American gothic tradition both within the context of the major movements of intellectual history over the past three-hundred years, as well as within the issues critical to American culture, this comprehensive volume covers a diverse terrain of well-known American writers, from Poe to …
History of the Gothic: Gothic Literature 1764-1824
Häftad, 2009
418 kr
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History of the Gothic: Gothic Literature 1764-1824 offers a detailed and accessible introduction to classic British Gothic literature and the popular sub-genre of the Female Gothic. Works by such classic Gothic authors as Horace Walpole, Matthew Lewis, Ann Radcliffe, William Godwin and Mary Shelley …
History of the Gothic: Gothic Literature 1825-1914
Häftad, 2009
427 kr
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History of the Gothic: Gothic Literature 1825-1914 is a detailed and accessible study of Gothic literature in the nineteenth century. It examines how the themes and tropes associated with the early Gothic novel were diffused widely in many different genres in the Victorian period, including the …
Gothic and Catholicism
Religion, Cultural Exchange and the Popular Novel, 1785-1829
Av Maria Purves
Inbunden, 2009
389 kr
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This book constitutes the first sustained analysis that comprehensively proves that revision is required of the critical commonplace idea in Gothic scholarship that the roots of the Gothic novel should be seen within a late eighteenth century popular anti-Catholicism. Whereas scholarship has always …
Shakespearean Gothic
Av Christy Desmet, Anne Williams
Häftad, 2009
330 kr
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This collection of essays explores the thesis that Shakespeare as we know him today was born in the eighteenth century, at the same time as the Gothic tradition, first named by Horace Walpole in 1764. The two are inextricable. Writers interested in pursuing 'Gothic' themes and forms (the …
Shakespearean Gothic
Av Christy Desmet, Anne Williams
Inbunden, 2009
1150 kr
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This collection of essays explores the thesis that Shakespeare as we know him today was born in the eighteenth century, at the same time as the Gothic tradition, first named by Horace Walpole in 1764. The two are inextricable. Writers interested in pursuing 'Gothic' themes and forms (the …
Republicanism and the American Gothic
Inbunden, 2009
389 kr
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Republicanism and the American Gothic is a comparative study of British and American literature and culture in the late eighteenth and mid-twentieth centuries. Offering an alternative to the psychological readings of the Gothic, this book explores the republican tradition of the British …
Wilkie Collins, Medicine and the Gothic
Inbunden, 2009
693 kr
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This book examines how Wilkie Collins's interest in medical matters developed in his writing through explorations of his revisions of the late eighteenth century Gothic novel, from his first sensation novels to his last novels of the 1880s. Throughout his career, Collins made changes in the …
Republicanism and the American Gothic
E-bok, 2009
299 kr
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This book is a comparative study of British and American literature and culture in the 1790s and 1950s. It explores the republican tradition of the British Enlightenment and the effect of its translation and migration to the American colonies. Specifically, it examines in detail the transatlantic …
History of the Gothic: Gothic Literature 1825-1914
E-bok, 2009
141 kr
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Examines how themes and trends associated with the early Gothic novels were diffused in many genres in the Victorian period, including the ghost story, the detective story and the adventure story.
History of the Gothic: American Gothic
E-bok, 2009
239 kr
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Defining the American gothic tradition both within the context of the major movements of intellectual history over the past three-hundred years, as well as within the issues critical to American culture, this comprehensive volume covers a diverse terrain of well-known American writers, from Poe to …
History of the Gothic: Gothic Literature 1764-1824
E-bok, 2009
141 kr
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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.
Shakespearean Gothic
Av Anne Williams, Christy Desmet m. fl.
E-bok, 2009
176 kr
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This book explores the paradox that the Gothic (today's werewolves, vampires, and horror movies) owe their origins (and their legitimacy) to eighteenth-century interpretations of Shakespeare. As Shakespeare was being established as the supreme British writer throughout the century, he was cited as …
Wilkie Collins, Medicine and the Gothic
E-bok, 2009
293 kr
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This book examines how Wilkie Collins's interest in medical matters developed in his writing through exploration of his revisions of the late eighteenth-century Gothic novel from his first sensation novels to his last novels of the 1880s. Throughout his career, Collins made changes in the …
Stephen King's Gothic
Av John Sears
E-bok, 2011
176 kr
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Stephen King is the world's best-selling horror writer. His work is ubiquitous on bookstore, supermarket, and personal library shelves and has been faithfully adapted into some of the most iconic horror films of the twentieth century. This study explores his writing through the lenses of …
History of the Gothic: Twentieth-Century Gothic
Av Lucie Armitt
E-bok, 2011
176 kr
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Why, at a time when the majority of us no longer believe in ghosts, demons or the occult, does Gothic continue to have such a strong grasp upon literature, cinema and popular culture? This book answers the question by exploring some of the ways in which we have applied Gothic tropes to our everyday …
Gothic Machine
Textualities, Pre-Cinematic Media and Film in Popular Visual Culture, 1670-1910
E-bok, 2011
602 kr
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This book provides new insights into how Gothic Horror as a whole started, and encourages the reader to think of the relations between such books and films as one vibrant set of energies.
Gothic Contemporaries
The Haunted Text
Inbunden, 2012
1229 kr
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Gothic Contemporaries: The Haunted Text is the first of its kind to align selected 21st century fiction with a revised understanding of the gothic through themes such as signification, communication, ethics, inheritance and currency.
Gothic Contemporaries
The Haunted Text
Häftad, 2012
368 kr
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Gothic Contemporaries: The Haunted Text is the first of its kind to align selected 21st century fiction with a revised understanding of the gothic through themes such as signification, communication, ethics, inheritance and currency.
Queer Uncanny
New Perspectives on the Gothic
Inbunden, 2012
533 kr
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The Queer Uncanny: New Perspectives on the Gothic investigates the roles played by the concept of the uncanny, as defined by Sigmund Freud and other theorists, in the representation of lesbian and male gay sexualities and transgender in a selection of contemporary British, American and Caribbean …
Queer Uncanny
New Perspectives on the Gothic
Häftad, 2012
357 kr
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The Queer Uncanny: New Perspectives on the Gothic investigates the roles played by the concept of the uncanny, as defined by Sigmund Freud and other theorists, in the representation of lesbian and male gay sexualities and transgender in a selection of contemporary British, American and Caribbean …
Queer Uncanny
New Perspectives on the Gothic
E-bok, 2012
229 kr
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This volume investigates the roles played by the concept of the uncanny, as defined by Sigmund Freud and other theorists, in the representation of lesbian and male gay sexualities and transgender in a selection of contemporary British, American and Caribbean fiction published 1980-2007.
Queer Others in Victorian Gothic
Transgressing Monstrosity
E-bok, 2012
344 kr
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Queer Others in Victorian Gothic: Transgressing Monstrosity explores the intersections of Gothic, cultural, gender, queer, socio-economic and postcolonial theories in nineteenth-century British representations of sexuality, gender, class and race. From mid-century authors like Wilkie Collins and …
Gothic Music
The Sounds of the Uncanny
E-bok, 2012
211 kr
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Gothic Music - The Sounds of the Uncanny traces sonic Gothic through history and genres from the eighteenth-century ghost story through the spooky soundtracks of cinema, television and video games to the dark music of the Goth subculture.
Women's Ghost Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain
E-bok, 2013
1290 kr
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Women's Ghost Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain examines the Female Gothic genre and how it expanded to include not only gender concerns but also social critiques of repressed sexuality, economics and imperialism.
Fantastic and European Gothic
History, Literature and the French Revolution
E-bok, 2013
1318 kr
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This iconoclastic book challenges and changes accepted opinions about the Gothic novel, and will introduce the British and American Reader to works hitherto unknown to them, but rivals in quality to the works of writers like Radcliffe, Lewis and Stoker.
Female Gothic Histories
Gender, Histories and the Gothic
E-bok, 2013
1318 kr
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Female Gothic Histories: Gender, History and the Gothic is an innovative new study of the ways in which women writers have used Gothic historical fiction to symbolise and counter their exclusion from traditional historical narratives.
George Eliot and the Gothic Novel
Genres, Gender and Feeling
Inbunden, 2013
1229 kr
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Royce Mahawatte critically compares the frightening, startling and melodramatic moments in George Eliot's fiction with excerpts from Gothic and sensation novels and in doing so argues that suspenseful plotting, and Gothic figures and tropes, play a role within Eliot's ambitions for the Victorian …
