The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction (Cambridge Companions to Literature) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521791243 ISBN 13: 9780521791243

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2002

Synopsis

Gothic as a form of fiction-making has played a major role in Western culture since the late eighteenth century. In this volume, fourteen world-class experts on the Gothic provide thorough and revealing accounts of this haunting-to-horrifying type of fiction from the 1760s (the decade of The Castle of Otranto, the first so-called 'Gothic story') to the end of the twentieth century (an era haunted by filmed and computerized Gothic simulations). Along the way, these essays explore the connections of Gothic fictions to political and industrial revolutions, the realistic novel, the theatre, Romantic and post-Romantic poetry, nationalism and racism from Europe to America, colonized and post-colonial populations, the rise of film and other visual technologies, the struggles between 'high' and 'popular' culture, changing psychological attitudes towards human identity, gender and sexuality, and the obscure lines between life and death, sanity and madness. The volume also includes a chronology and guides to further reading.

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Book Description:

A thorough and accessible guide to the Gothic genre. Essays explore the relationship with political and industrial revolutions, other literary traditions, nationalism and racism, colonized and post-colonial populations, the rise of film, and changing attitudes towards human identity. The volume also includes a chronology and guides to further reading.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0521791243
• ISBN 13: 9780521791243
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 354
• Editor: Hogle Jerrold E.