Format:
1 Online-Ressource (XXV, 327 S.).
ISBN:
9780511999185
Series Statement:
Cambridge companions to literature
Content:
Gothic as a form of fiction-making has played a major role in Western culture since the late eighteenth century. In this 2002 volume, fourteen world-class experts on the Gothic provide thorough and revealing accounts of this haunting-to-horrifying type of fiction from the 1760s (the decade of The Castle of Otranto, the first so-called 'Gothic story') to the end of the twentieth century (an era haunted by filmed and computerized Gothic simulations). Along the way, these essays explore the connections of Gothic fictions to political and industrial revolutions, the realistic novel, the theatre, Romantic and post-Romantic poetry, nationalism and racism from Europe to America, colonized and post-colonial populations, the rise of film and other visual technologies, the struggles between 'high' and 'popular' culture, changing psychological attitudes towards human identity, gender and sexuality, and the obscure lines between life and death, sanity and madness. The volume also includes a chronology and guides to further reading
Note:
The Gothic in western culture
,
The genesis of "Gothic" fiction
,
The 1790s : the effulgence of Gothic
,
French and German Gothic : the beginnings
,
Gothic fictions and Romantic writing in Britain
,
Scottish and Irish Gothic
,
English Gothic theatre
,
The Victorian Gothic in English novels and stories, 1830-1880
,
The rise of American Gothic
,
British Gothic fiction, 1885-1930
,
The Gothic on screen
,
Colonial and postcolonial Gothic : the Caribbean
,
The contemporary Gothic : why we need it
,
Aftergothic : consumption, machines, and black holes
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Hardcover ISBN 978-0-521-79124-3
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Paperback ISBN 978-0-521-79466-4
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
,
English Studies
Keywords:
Gothic novel
;
Schauerliteratur
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
DOI:
10.1017/CCOL0521791243
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https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL0521791243
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