Catherine Spooner (Lancaster University)

The Cambridge History of the Gothic: Volume 2, Gothic in the Nineteenth Century

Herausgeber: Townshend, Dale; Wright, Angela

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Comprising twenty-one essays by leading international scholars, this volume offers a comprehensive account of Gothic culture in Britain, America and Continental Europe in the nineteenth century. Interdisciplinary in its focus, it includes chapters on literature, architecture, science, theatre, historiography and popular entertainment.

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Produktdetails

• The Cambridge History of the Gothic
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 558
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 161mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 1008g
• ISBN-13: 9781108472715
• ISBN-10: 1108472710
• Artikelnr.: 58533456

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; 1. Gothic romanticism and the summer of 1816 Angela Wright
and Madeleine Callaghan; 2. Fantasmagoriana: The cosmopolitan gothic and
Frankenstein Maximiliaan van Woudenberg; 3. The mutation of the vampire in
nineteenth-century gothic Jerrold E. Hogle; 4. From romantic gothic to
Victorian medievalism: 1817 and 1877 Tom Duggett; 5. Nineteenth-century
gothic architectural aesthetics: A. W. N. Pugin, John Ruskin and William
Morris Alexandra Warwick; 6. Gothic fiction, from shilling shockers to
penny bloods Anthony Mandal; 7. The theatrical gothic in the nineteenth
century Kelly Jones; 8. 'Specterology': gothic showmanship in
nineteenth-century popular shows and media Joe Kember; 9. The gothic in
Victorian poetry Serena Trowbridge; 10. The genesis of the Victorian ghost
story Scott Brewster; 11. Charles dickens and the gothic John Bowen; 12.
Victorian domestic gothic fiction Tamar Heller; 13. The gothic in
nineteenth-century Spain Xavier Aldana Reyes and Rocío Rødtjer; 14. The
gothic in nineteenth-century Italy Francesca Saggini; 15. The gothic in
nineteenth-century Scotland Suzanne Gilbert; 16. The gothic in
nineteenth-century Ireland Christina Morin; 17. The gothic in
nineteenth-century America Charles L. Crow; 18. Nineteenth-century British
and American gothic and the history of slavery Maisha Wester; 19.
Genealogies of monstrosity: Darwin, the biology of crime and
nineteenth-century British gothic literature Corinna Wagner; 20. Gothic and
the coming of the railways William Hughes; 21. Gothic imperialism at the
fin de siècle Andrew Smith.