The Connell Short Guide to The Gothic - Softcover

Catherine Redford

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1911187600 ISBN 13: 9781911187608

Publisher: Connell Guides, 2017

Synopsis

When we think of the Gothic, a wide variety of dark and frightening images spring to mind. But as well as stormy nights and decaying castles, readers of the Gothic will also find scientific laboratories and even ordinary, modern houses. Catherine Redford draws on a whole range of classic Gothic texts to explore the genre, from William Beckford's Vathek to Bram Stoker's Dracula, from Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. She also explores the way modern writers have treated the Gothic in novels like Iain Banks's The Wasp Factory, Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber, Cormac McCarthy's Outer Dark, William Faulkner's Light in August and Toni Morrison's Beloved.

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About the Author

Dr Catherine Redford is an independent writer and researcher, specialising in literature of the nineteenth century. Catherine completed her post-doc at Hertford College, University of Oxford, in 2019 and was later awarded a MA with Distinction, from Bristol University. Catherine remained at Bristol for her doctoral research, writing a thesis entitled 'Friendship and Community in Last Man Literature, 1806-1833'. She has worked as a Lecturer in English at St Hilda's College, University of Oxford, where she taught various papers covering the period 1660 to the present day.

Edition details

• Publisher: Connell Guides
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1911187600
• ISBN 13: 9781911187608
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 48
• Editor: Jolyon Connell