David Punter

The Literature of Terror: Volume 1 (eBook, PDF)

The Gothic Tradition

• Format: PDF

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: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317891987
• Artikelnr.: 41009149

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 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