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.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• 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 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