David Punter

The Literature of Terror

Volume 1 : The Gothic Tradition

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The first edition was regarded as the definitive survey of Gothic and related terror writing in English. No other text considers this genre on such a scale and covers the theoretical perspectives so comprehensively. In the latest edition, the broad range of theoretical perspectives has been enlarged to include modern critical theories. Volume One is a thoroughly updated edition of the original text, covering the period from 1765 up to the Edwardian age, exploring the richness and literary diversity of the gothic form: from the original eighteenth-century gothic of Ann Radcliffe to the melodramatic fiction of Wilkie Collins.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge / Taylor & Francis
• 2. Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Januar 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 163g
• ISBN-13: 9780582237148
• ISBN-10: 0582237149
• Artikelnr.: 21195342

Autorenporträt

David Punter is Professor of English at the University of Bristol, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to first edition Preface to second edition Acknowledgements 1. Introductory: dimensions of Gothic 2. The origins of Gothic fiction. Sentimentalism, Graveyard Poetry, The Sublime, Smollett, Horace Walpole, Clara Reeve, Sophia Lee 3. The classic Gothic novels. Ann Radcliffe and Matthew Lewis 4. Gothic and romanticism. Blake, Coleridge, Shelley, Byron, Keats, John Polidori, Mary Shelley 5. The dialectic of persecution. William Godwin, C.R. Maturin, James Hogg 6. Gothic, history and the middle classes. Scott, Bulwer Lytton, G.P.R. James, William Harrison Ainsworth, G.W.M Reynolds 7. Early American Gothic. Charles Brockden. Brown. Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe 8. Gothic and the sensation novel. Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Sheridan LeFanu Appendix on Criticism Bibliography Index

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Preface to the first edition Preface to the second edition Acknowledgements 1. Gothic and decadence: Robert Louis Stevenson
Oscar Wilde
H. G. Wells
Bram Stoker
Arthur Machen 2. Later American Gothic: Ambrose Bierce
Robert W. Chambers
H. P. Lovecraft 3. The ambivalence of memory: Henry James and Walter de la Mare 4. Formalism and meaning in the ghost story: Arthur Conan Doyle
H. G. Wells
Algernon Blackwood
M. R. James
David Lindsay 5. Gothic in the horror film 1930-1980 6. Modern perspectives of the barbaric: Mervyn Peake
'Isak Dinesen'
John Hawkes
Joyce Carol Oates
James Purdy
William Burroughs
Thomas Pynchon
J. G. Ballard
Robert Coover
Angela Carter 7. Contemporary Gothic transformations 8. Mutations of terror: theory and Gothic Bibliography Index