David Punter

The Literature of Terror

Volume 1: The Gothic Tradition

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume covers 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
• 2. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 448g
• ISBN-13: 9781138146594
• ISBN-10: 1138146595
• Artikelnr.: 69948029

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