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York Notes Companions Gothic Literature Susan Chaplin

York Notes Companions Gothic Literature By Susan Chaplin

York Notes Companions Gothic Literature by Susan Chaplin


Summary

This title presents an exploration of Gothic literature from its origins in Horace Walpole's 1764 classic 'The Castle of Otranto', through Romantic and Victorian Gothic to modernist and postmodernist takes on the form.

York Notes Companions Gothic Literature Summary

York Notes Companions Gothic Literature by Susan Chaplin

An exploration of Gothic literature from its origins in Horace Walpole's 1764 classic The Castle of Otranto, through Romantic and Victorian Gothic to modernist and postmodernist takes on the form.

About Susan Chaplin

Sue Chaplin is a Senior Lecturer in English, and Course Leader for the BA English and History at Leeds Metropolitan University. She is also Executive Officer to the International Gothic Association, Commissioning Editor of the Romanticism Division of the online journal Literature Compass and member of the editorial board for Gothic Studies. She is the author of two monographs The Gothic and the Rule of Law, 1764-1820 (Palgrave, 2007) and Law, Sensibility and the Sublime in Eighteenth-century Women's Fiction (Ashgate, 2004) and editor of the forthcoming Romanticism Handbook (Continuum).

Table of Contents

Part One: Introduction

Part Two: A Cultural Overview

Part Three: Texts, Writers and Contexts

Eighteenth-century Gothic: Walpole, Radcliffe and Lewis

Romantic-era Gothic: Coleridge, Byron and Mary Shelley

Nineteenth-century Gothic: Emily Bronte, Poe, Collins and Stevenson

From the Fin de Siecle to Modern Gothic: Stoker, Wells, M.R. James and Lovecraft

Twentieth-century American Gothic: Faulkner, King, Rice and Brite

British Gothic in the Late Twentieth Century: Carter, Ballard, Mantel and Waters

Part Four: Critical Theories and Debates

Narrative Instability and the Gothic Narrator

Female Gothic

Gothic Bodies

Nation and Empire

Part Five: References and Resources

Timeline

Further Reading

Index

Additional information

GOR004316440
9781408266663
1408266660
York Notes Companions Gothic Literature by Susan Chaplin
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Pearson Education Limited
2011-07-26
328
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