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Author Thompson, Gary Richard, 1937-

Title The Gothic imagination: essays in dark romanticism / edited by G. R. Thompson.

Publication Info. [Pullman] : Washington State University Press, [1974]

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Description 176 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Introduction: Romanticism and the Gothic tradition / G.R. Thompson -- Idea of the numinous in Gothic literature / S.L. Varnado -- Demonic dread: the incubus figure in British literature / Nicolas K. Kiessling -- In the hands of an angry god: religious terror in Gothic fiction / Joel Porte -- "Mysteries" of Edgar Poe: the quest for a monomyth in Gothic literature / Barton Levi St. Armand -- Byron and the metaphysic of self-destruction / John W. Ehrstine -- Exuberant gloom, existential agony, and heroic despair: three varieties of negative romanticism / Robert D. Hume -- From the "last judgment" to Kafka's world: a study in Gothic iconography / Virginia M. Hyde -- English Gothic and the french imagination: a calendar of translations, 1767-1828 / Maurice Lévy.
Form Also issued online.
Subject English literature -- History and criticism.
English literature.
American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
American fiction.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Gothic revival (Literature) -- English-speaking countries.
Gothic revival (Literature)
English-speaking countries.
Romanticism -- English-speaking countries.
Romanticism.
Horror tales -- History and criticism.
Horror tales.