Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-196) and index.
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Gothic histories -- Reading the gothic -- Burke -- Freud -- The gothic heyday 1760-1820 -- Defining the gothic: Otranto -- Radcliffe and Lewis -- American gothic -- Reading Frankenstein -- The gothic, 1820-1865 -- Gothic mutations: poetry -- Edgar Allen Poe and the American gothic -- Gothic mutations: prose -- Reading Jane Eyre -- Gothic Proximities, 1865-1900 -- Hidden identities: ghosts -- Gothic doubles -- Race and history: post-bellum gothic -- Reading Dracula -- Twentieth century -- The ghost story as the end of gothic? -- Radio and film -- Contemparary fiction: postmodern gothic? -- Reading The silence of the lambs.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This introductory study provides a thorough grounding in both the history of Gothic literature and the way in which Gothic texts have been (and can be) critically read. The book opens with a chronology and an introduction to the principal texts and key critical terms, followed by four chapters: The Gothic Heyday 1760-1820; Gothic 1820-1865; Gothic Proximities 1865-1900; and the Twentieth Century. The discussion examines how the Gothic has developed in different national contexts and in different forms, including novels, novellas, poems, and films. Each chapter concludes with a close reading of.
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Title
Gothic literature.
International Standard Book Number
0748623698
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
American literature-- 18th century-- History and criticism.
American literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
English literature-- 18th century-- History and criticism.
English literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism.