| Description |
xvi, 549 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
| Series |
Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 79
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Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 79.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: the ghost of a history / David Punter -- In gothic darkly: heterotopia, history, culture / Fred Botting -- The goths in history and pre-gothic gothic / Robin Sowerby -- Gothic Shakespeare / Dale Townshend -- European gothic / Neil Cornwell -- The gothic ballad / Douglass H. Thomson -- Ann Radcliffe and Matthew Lewis / Robert Miles -- Mary Shelley, author of 'Frankenstein' / Nora Crook -- Walter Scott, James Hogg, and Scottish gothic / Ian Duncan -- Irish gothic: C. R. Maturin and J. S. LeFanu / Victor Sage -- The political culture of gothic drama / David Worrall -- Nineteenth-century American gothic / Allan Lloyd Smith -- The ghost story / Julia Briggs -- Gothic in the 1890s / Glennis Byron -- Fictional vampires in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / William Hughes -- Horror fiction: in search of a definition / Clive Bloom -- Love bites: contemporary women's vampire fictions / Gina Wisker -- Gothic film / Heidi Kaye -- Shape and shadow: on poetry and the uncanny / David Punter -- Gothic criticism / Chris Baldick and Robert Mighall -- The gothic sublime / Vijay Mishra -- Psychoanalysis and the gothic / Michelle A. Massé -- Comic gothic / Avril Horner and Sue Zlosnik -- Gothic and the graphic novel / Julia Round -- Goth culture / Catherine Spooner -- Global gothic / Glennis Byron -- Australian gothic / Ken Gelder -- New Zealand gothic / Ian Conrich -- Canadian gothic / Cynthia Sugars -- Asian gothic / Katarzyna Ancuta -- Japanese gothic / Charles Shirō Inouye -- Can you forgive her? The gothic heroine and her critics / Kate Ferguson Ellis -- Picture this: Stephen King's queer gothic / Steven Bruhm -- Seeing things: gothic and the madness of interpretation / Scott Brewster -- The gothic ghost of the counterfeit and the progress of abjection / Jerrold E. Hogle -- The magical realism of the contemporary gothic / Lucie Armitt -- Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest: hospitality and the gothic / Joanne Watkiss. |
| Subject |
Horror tales, English -- History and criticism.
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Horror tales, English. |
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Gothic revival (Literature) -- English-speaking countries.
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Gothic revival (Literature) |
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English-speaking countries. |
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Psychoanalysis and literature -- English-speaking countries.
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Psychoanalysis and literature. |
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Horror tales, American -- History and criticism.
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Horror tales, American. |
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Psychological fiction -- History and criticism.
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Psychological fiction. |
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Ghost stories -- History and criticism.
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Ghost stories. |
| Added Author |
Punter, David.
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| ISBN |
9781405198066 cloth |
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1405198060 cloth |
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