The Gothick novel : a casebook
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The Gothick novel : a casebook
(Casebook series)
Macmillan, 1990
- : hbk
- : pbk
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Bibliography: p. 177
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
- Volume
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: hbk ISBN 9780333344798
Description
This volume in the "novels" section of casebooks surveys the rise and development of the Gothic tale of mystery and horror, from the mid-19th century to the eve of the Victorian period. The editor's introduction traces the development of the genre and its relation to contemporary aesthetic and literary movements and assesses the 18th and 19th centuries and the modern critical responses to it. Particular attention is given to the cardinal place in this literary genre of Walpole's "Castle of Otranto", Beckford's "Vathek", Lewis' "The Monk", Ann Radcliffe's "Mysteries of Udolpho" and Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein".
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Critical comment and opinion: Samual Johnson
- Edmund Burke
- Richard Hurd
- S.T.Coleridge
- Jane Austin
- Marquis de Sade
- Henry Crabb Robinson
- Thomas Love Peacock
- Sir Walter Scott
- James Hogg
- Sir Walter Scott
- T.B.Macaulay
- Wilkie Collins. Part 2 20th century studies: explained supernatural, George Saintsbury
- the uncanny, Sigmund Freud
- the Gothic romance, Joyce M.A.Tompkins
- king death, Eleanor M.Sickels
- the metamorphosis of Satan, Mario Praz
- English "romans noirs" and surrealism, Andre Breton
- the "goths" in England, Samuel Kliger
- the substitution of terror for love, Leslie Fiedler
- Lewis' "The Monk" - a brutal revolt against the limits of human nature, Robert Kiely
- fictional technique in Radcliffe's "Udolpho", Coral Ann Howells
- Mary Shelley's monstrous eve, Sandra M.Gilbert and Marion Gubar
- my hideous progeny - Mary Shelley and the feminizatiion of romance, Mary Poovey.
- Volume
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: pbk ISBN 9780333344804
Description
This volume in the "novels" section of casebooks surveys the rise and development of the Gothic tale of mystery and horror, from the mid-19th century to the eve of the Victorian period. The editor's introduction traces the development of the genre and its relation to contemporary aesthetic and literary movements and assesses the 18th and 19th centuries and the modern critical responses to it. Particular attention is given to the cardinal place in this literary genre of Walpole's "Castle of Otranto", Beckford's "Vathek", Lewis' "The Monk", Ann Radcliffe's "Mysteries of Udolpho" and Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein".
Table of Contents
General Editor's Preface.- Introduction.- PART 1 EARLY CRITICAL COMMENT.- PART 2 TWENTIETH-CENTURY STUDIES.- Select Bibliography.- Notes on Contributors.- Acknowledgements.- Index.
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