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This highly accessible anthology of Gothic writings and criticism provides an essential guide to the genre. The second edition of this critically acclaimed book has been thoroughly revised to include material from the early gothic and a fresh set of contemporary essays, with a supporting timeline and thought provoking introductory material.
This highly accessible anthology of Gothic writings and criticism provides an essential guide to the genre. The second edition of this critically acclaimed book has been thoroughly revised to include material from the early gothic and a fresh set of contemporary essays, with a supporting timeline and thought provoking introductory material.
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Autorenporträt
Clive Bloom is Professor in Residence at Hull University, Emeritus Professor at Middlesex University, UK, and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Western Timisoara, Romania. A feature writer for The Financial Times, The Times, The Guardian, The Independent, The Irish Times and the London Evening Standard, he is the author of many books on topics from literature to politics, including the London political histories Violent City (2003) and Riot City (2012). An editor of series on crime and the Gothic for multiple publishers and an international key-note speaker, Bloom has won a Bram Stoker Award, been shortlisted for a World Fantasy Award and curated exhibitions on Jack the Ripper and the Siege of Sidney Street for the Museum of London.
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Acknowledgements Chronology of Significant Landmarks in Horror and Gothic Fiction Preface to the Second Edition Introduction PART 1: GOTHIC WHISPERS Extract from Of the Sublime; E.Burke The Castle of Otranto, Preface to 1764 edition; H.Walpole The Castle of Otranto, Preface to second edition; H.Walpole Advertisement to The Monk; M.Lewis Extract from On 'The Monk'; S.T.Coleridge Extract from The Italian; A.Radcliffe Extract from Discourse 1: 'Gothick'; J.Reynolds Frankenstein, Preface to 1817 edition; M.Shelley Frankenstein, Preface to 1831 edition; M.Shelley Remarks on Frankenstein: or the Modern Prometheus; W.Scott Extract from Northanger Abbey; J.Austen Extract from Nightmare Abbey; T.L.Peacock Melmoth, the Wanderer, Preface to 1820 edition; C.Maturin On the Supernatural in Poetry; A.Radcliffe PART 2: HORROR THE SOUL OF THE PLOT Extract from The Man of the Crowd; E.A.Poe Extract from The Imp of the Perverse; E.A.Poe The Philosophy of Composition; E.A.Poe Extract from Eureka; E.A.Poe Extract from Marginalia; E.A.Poe Preface to The House of the Seven Gables; N.Hawthorne Extract from The Renaissance; W.Pater Extract from Nightmare Touch; L.Hearn An Autobiographical Postscript; E.Wharton PART 3: IN THE DARK Extract from The Uncanny; S.Freud On Algernon Blackwood; H.Belloc Preface to The Collected Ghost Stories; M.R.James Extract from The Supernatural in Literature; H.P.Lovecraft Extract from The Vampire in Literature; M.Summers I like Playing Dracula; B.Lugosi Author's Note from The Devil Rides Out; D.Wheatley Gothic Hangover; E.S.Turner PART 4: FEARMAKERS On Horror Writers; R.Bloch Dracula, Frankenstine, Sons and Co.; K.Amis Symposium on H P Lovecraft; Los Angeles Science Fiction Society Extract from Interview for Playboy; S.King Extract from An Evening at Billericay Public Library; S.King On Stephen King; W.Strieber On Horror and Subversion; C.Barker PART 5: CONTEMPORARY SHIVERS Terrorism and the Gothic; D.Punter Extract from The Fantastic; T.Todorov Monster Culture (Seven Theses); J.J.Cohen Extract from Freakery; R.G.Thomson The Body of Frankenstein's Monster; C.Helman Narrative Structure, Liminality, Self Similarity: The Case of Gothic Fiction; M.Aguirre Horror Narratives; L.Talairach-Vielmas African American and Afro Caribbean Women's Horror as Contemporary Cultural Critique; G.Wisker All Dark Inside: Zombies and Detectives; C.Bloom Epilogue: Further Thoughts on the Gothic Further Reading Index
Acknowledgements Chronology of Significant Landmarks in Horror and Gothic Fiction Preface to the Second Edition Introduction PART 1: GOTHIC WHISPERS Extract from Of the Sublime; E.Burke The Castle of Otranto, Preface to 1764 edition; H.Walpole The Castle of Otranto, Preface to second edition; H.Walpole Advertisement to The Monk; M.Lewis Extract from On 'The Monk'; S.T.Coleridge Extract from The Italian; A.Radcliffe Extract from Discourse 1: 'Gothick'; J.Reynolds Frankenstein, Preface to 1817 edition; M.Shelley Frankenstein, Preface to 1831 edition; M.Shelley Remarks on Frankenstein: or the Modern Prometheus; W.Scott Extract from Northanger Abbey; J.Austen Extract from Nightmare Abbey; T.L.Peacock Melmoth, the Wanderer, Preface to 1820 edition; C.Maturin On the Supernatural in Poetry; A.Radcliffe PART 2: HORROR THE SOUL OF THE PLOT Extract from The Man of the Crowd; E.A.Poe Extract from The Imp of the Perverse; E.A.Poe The Philosophy of Composition; E.A.Poe Extract from Eureka; E.A.Poe Extract from Marginalia; E.A.Poe Preface to The House of the Seven Gables; N.Hawthorne Extract from The Renaissance; W.Pater Extract from Nightmare Touch; L.Hearn An Autobiographical Postscript; E.Wharton PART 3: IN THE DARK Extract from The Uncanny; S.Freud On Algernon Blackwood; H.Belloc Preface to The Collected Ghost Stories; M.R.James Extract from The Supernatural in Literature; H.P.Lovecraft Extract from The Vampire in Literature; M.Summers I like Playing Dracula; B.Lugosi Author's Note from The Devil Rides Out; D.Wheatley Gothic Hangover; E.S.Turner PART 4: FEARMAKERS On Horror Writers; R.Bloch Dracula, Frankenstine, Sons and Co.; K.Amis Symposium on H P Lovecraft; Los Angeles Science Fiction Society Extract from Interview for Playboy; S.King Extract from An Evening at Billericay Public Library; S.King On Stephen King; W.Strieber On Horror and Subversion; C.Barker PART 5: CONTEMPORARY SHIVERS Terrorism and the Gothic; D.Punter Extract from The Fantastic; T.Todorov Monster Culture (Seven Theses); J.J.Cohen Extract from Freakery; R.G.Thomson The Body of Frankenstein's Monster; C.Helman Narrative Structure, Liminality, Self Similarity: The Case of Gothic Fiction; M.Aguirre Horror Narratives; L.Talairach-Vielmas African American and Afro Caribbean Women's Horror as Contemporary Cultural Critique; G.Wisker All Dark Inside: Zombies and Detectives; C.Bloom Epilogue: Further Thoughts on the Gothic Further Reading Index
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'...already deservedly a seminal work of Gothic scholarship.' - Susan Chaplin, BARS Bulletin
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