The Literature of Terror: Volume 1: The Gothic Tradition

ISBN-13: 9780582237148 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 248 str.

David Punter

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Preface to first edition  Preface to second edition  Acknowledgements  1. Introductory: dimensions of Gothic  2. The origins of Gothic fiction. Sentimentalism, Graveyard Poetry, The Sublime, Smollett, Horace Walpole, Clara Reeve, Sophia Lee  3. The classic Gothic novels. Ann Radcliffe and Matthew Lewis  4. Gothic and romanticism. Blake, Coleridge, Shelley, Byron, Keats, John Polidori, Mary Shelley  5. The dialectic of persecution. William Godwin, C.R. Maturin, James Hogg  6. Gothic, history and the middle classes. Scott, Bulwer Lytton, G.P.R. James, William Harrison Ainsworth, G.W.M Reynolds  7. Early American Gothic. Charles Brockden. Brown. Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe  8. Gothic and the sensation novel. Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Sheridan LeFanu  Appendix on Criticism  Bibliography  Index

O autorze

David Punter is Professor of English at the University of Bristol, UK.