Terror and Wonder: The Gothic Imagination - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0712357912 ISBN 13: 9780712357913

Publisher: The British Library Publishing Division, 2014

Synopsis

The Gothic imagination, that dark predilection for horrors and terrors, spectres and sprites, occupies a prominent place in contemporary Western culture. First given fictional expression in Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto of 1764, the Gothic mode has continued to haunt literature, fine art, music, film and fashion ever since its heyday in Britain in the 1790s. Terror and Wonder, which accompanies a major exhibition at the British Library, is a collection of essays that trace the numerous meanings and manifestations of the Gothic across time, tracking its prominent shifts and mutations from its eighteenth-century origins, through the Victorian period, and into the present day. Edited and introduced by Dale Townshend, and consisting of original contributions by Nick Groom, Angela Wright, Alexandra Warwick, Andrew Smith, Lucie Armitt and Catherine Spooner, Terror and Wonder provides a compelling and comprehensive overview of the Gothic imagination over the past 250 years.

About this title

Review:

"Terror & Wonder: The Gothic Imagination"will surely be a book referenced repeatedly for both pleasure and in academia." --San Diego Book Review, Fall 2015"

About the Author:

Dale Townshend is Senior Lecturer in Gothic and Romantic Literature at the University of Stirling, Scotland. His most recent publications include The Gothic World (with Glennis Byron; Routledge, 2013) and Ann Radcliffe, Romanticism and the Gothic (with Angela Wright; Cambridge University Press, 2014).

About this edition

• Publisher: The British Library Publishing Division
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0712357912
• ISBN 13: 9780712357913
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: Townshend Dale