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This volume offers a comprehensive account of the Gothic in Western civilisation, from the Gothic sacking of Rome in 410 AD, through seventeenth-century Gothic politics, and up to the end of the long eighteenth century. Interdisciplinary in its focus, it includes essays on literature, architecture, politics and fine art.

Though once conceived of as mutually exclusive categories, Romanticism and the Gothic share a long and complex history of reaction and interaction, avowal and disavowal, influence and exchange. Extending recent critical interrogations of the Gothic / Romantic divide, this collection of essays provides a thorough overview of the manifestly Gothic impulses in Romantic-era literary culture, from the graveyard verse of the 1740s, through the heady politics of the later eighteenth century, and into the writings of the second-generation Romantic poets. Divided into three sections - Gothic Modes and...

In this book, "Premonition of Samantha Rae," a little girl stuns her family when she dreams about a necklace. She had never seen it before and it looked like the one her grandmother had lost. After it was mysteriously found in a bag where a toy was supposed to have been, many questions arose. Where did it come from? Could the necklace have wanted to find her? Is it good, evil, or both? How come she is the only one that can communicate with it? Her mother and grandmother want to get to the bottom of it, but the dad just brushes it off as a coincidence. Then, later in life when Samantha Rae...

This book is the first to engage Zen Buddhism philosophically on crucial issues from a perspective that is informed by the traditions of Western philosophy and religion. It focuses on one renowned Zen master, Huang Po, whose recorded sayings exemplify the spirit of the "golden age" of Zen in medieval China, and on the transmission of these writings to the West. While deeply sympathetic to the Zen tradition, it raises serious questions about the kinds of claims that can be made on its behalf.

This second volume of The Cambridge History of the Gothic provides a rigorous account of the Gothic in British, American and Continental European culture, from the Romantic period through to the Victorian fin de siècle. Here, leading scholars in the fields of literature, theatre, architecture and the history of science and popular entertainment explore the Gothic in its numerous interdisciplinary forms and guises, as well as across a range of different international contexts. As much a cultural history of the Gothic in this period as an account of the ways in which the Gothic mode has...