The history of Gothic fiction

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Label

The history of Gothic fiction

Statement of responsibility

Markman Ellis

Creator

• Ellis, Markman

Subject

• Englisch
• Geschichte
• Gothic novel
• Gothic novel
• Gothic novel
• Gothic revival (Literature) -- English-speaking countries
• Gothic revival (Literature) -- Great Britain
• Griezelfilms
• Griezelfilms
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Griezelverhalen
• Horror tales, American -- History and criticism
• Horror tales, English -- History and criticism
• Roman noir (Genre littéraire) -- Grande-Bretagne -- 19e siècle -- Histoire et critique
• Récits d'horreur anglais -- 19e siècle -- Histoire et critique
• Schauerliteratur
• Schauerliteratur
• Griezelverhalen

Genre

• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

• "The History of Gothic Fiction debates the rise of the genre from its origins in the late eighteenth-century novel through nineteenth-century fictions of tyrants, monsters, conspirators and vampires to the twentieth-century zombie film." "Approaching key novels by authors such as Walpole (The Castle of Otranto), Radcliffe (The Romance of the Forest and The Mysteries of Udolpho), Austen (Northanger Abbey), Wollstonecraft (The Wrongs of Woman), Lewis (The Monk), Shelley (Frankenstein), Stoker (Dracula) and Halperin (White Zombie), the argument proceeds on historicist principles, analysing the peculiar tone of these fictions and uncovering themes of credulity and reason, secrecy and enlightenment, tyranny and libertinism, sexuality and gender, race and miscegenation. The final chapters on the vampire and the zombie explain how the un-dead of gothic terror are embedded in an argument from history." "Written with an undergraduate audience in mind, this text offers a synthesis of the main topics of Gothic interest and clearly argued summaries of critical debate. It signals its difference from recent psychoanalytic readings of Gothic and argues instead for a more complex, multilayered approach via an historicist reading of gothic fiction. Illustrated with ten black and white plates and including an up-to-date bibliography, this will be an ideal text for all those with an interest in the Gothic."--Jacket
• "The History of Gothic Fiction debates the rise of the genre from its origins in the late eighteenth-century novel through nineteenth-century fictions of tyrants, monsters, conspirators and vampires to the twentieth-century zombie film." "Approaching key novels by authors such as Walpole (The Castle of Otranto), Radcliffe (The Romance of the Forest and The Mysteries of Udolpho), Austen (Northanger Abbey), Wollstonecraft (The Wrongs of Woman), Lewis (The Monk), Shelley (Frankenstein), Stoker (Dracula) and Halperin (White Zombie), the argument proceeds on historicist principles, analysing the peculiar tone of these fictions and uncovering themes of credulity and reason, secrecy and enlightenment, tyranny and libertinism, sexuality and gender, race and miscegenation. The final chapters on the vampire and the zombie explain how the un-dead of gothic terror are embedded in an argument from history." "Written with an undergraduate audience in mind, this text offers a synthesis of the main topics of Gothic interest and clearly argued summaries of critical debate. It signals its difference from recent psychoanalytic readings of Gothic and argues instead for a more complex, multilayered approach via an historicist reading of gothic fiction. Illustrated with ten black and white plates and including an up-to-date bibliography, this will be an ideal text for all those with an interest in the Gothic."--BOOK JACKET

Cataloging source

EQO

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

PR830.T3

LC item number

E533 2000

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography