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Gothic Literature / Andrew Smith.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature : ECGLPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780748647415
  • 9780748647439
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 809.38729
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Series Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chronology -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Gothic Heyday, 1760-1820 -- Chapter 2 The Gothic, 1820-1865 -- Chapter 3 Gothic Proximities, 1865-1900 -- Chapter 4 Twentieth Century -- Chapter 5 Contemporary Gothic -- Conclusion -- Student Resources -- Index
Summary: New edition of bestselling introductory text outlining the history and ways of reading Gothic literatureThis revised edition includes:A new chapter on Contemporary Gothic which explores the Gothic of the early twenty first century and looks at new critical developmentsAn updated Bibliography of critical sources and a revised ChronologyThe book opens with a Chronology and an Introduction to the principal texts and key critical terms, followed by five chapters: The Gothic Heyday 1760-1820; Gothic 1820-1865; Gothic Proximities 1865-1900; Twentieth Century; and Contemporary Gothic. The discussion examines how the Gothic has developed in different national contexts and in different forms, including novels, novellas, poems, films, radio and television. Each chapter concludes with a close reading of a specific text - Frankenstein, Jane Eyre, Dracula, The Silence of the Lambs and The Historian - to illustrate ways in which contextual discussion informs critical analysis. The book ends with a Conclusion outlining possible future developments within scholarship on the Gothic.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Series Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chronology -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Gothic Heyday, 1760-1820 -- Chapter 2 The Gothic, 1820-1865 -- Chapter 3 Gothic Proximities, 1865-1900 -- Chapter 4 Twentieth Century -- Chapter 5 Contemporary Gothic -- Conclusion -- Student Resources -- Index

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New edition of bestselling introductory text outlining the history and ways of reading Gothic literatureThis revised edition includes:A new chapter on Contemporary Gothic which explores the Gothic of the early twenty first century and looks at new critical developmentsAn updated Bibliography of critical sources and a revised ChronologyThe book opens with a Chronology and an Introduction to the principal texts and key critical terms, followed by five chapters: The Gothic Heyday 1760-1820; Gothic 1820-1865; Gothic Proximities 1865-1900; Twentieth Century; and Contemporary Gothic. The discussion examines how the Gothic has developed in different national contexts and in different forms, including novels, novellas, poems, films, radio and television. Each chapter concludes with a close reading of a specific text - Frankenstein, Jane Eyre, Dracula, The Silence of the Lambs and The Historian - to illustrate ways in which contextual discussion informs critical analysis. The book ends with a Conclusion outlining possible future developments within scholarship on the Gothic.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)