Romantic Gothic : : An Edinburgh Companion / / Angela Wright, Dale Townshend.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Wright, Angela,; Townshend, Dale,
• MitwirkendeR: Bennett, Mark,; Davison, Carol Margaret,; Duggett, Tom,; Faflak, Joel,; Hodson, Jane,; Hogle, Jerrold E,; Kitson, Peter J.,; Long Hoeveler, Diane,; Milbank, Alison,; Miles, Robert,; Neill, Natalie,; O'Halloran, Meiko,; O'Malley, Patrick R.,; Quinn, Vincent,; Russell, Deborah,; Sage, Victor,; Saglia, Diego,; Smith, Andrew,; Thomson, Douglass H.,; Townshend, Dale,; Wright, Angela,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh Companions to the Gothic : ECG
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 2 B/W illustrations

Provides a detailed, rigorous account of the rise and development of the Gothic aesthetic in British, American and European culture between 1740 and 1840Self-consciously breaching the critical divide between what literary history has subsequently differentiated as the 'Gothic' and the 'Romantic', this collection of 17 newly commissioned chapters seeks to draw attention to that prominent strain in late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century British, American and European literature in which the distinction between the popular, low-cultural reaches of the Gothic and the 'High' Romantic aesthetics of more canonical figures is all but erased.Key FeaturesSubjects early Gothic writing to sustained critical attention and re-examinationSituates British Gothic writing in relation to contemporary developments of the mode in America and Continental Europe Seeks to advance current scholarly debates particularly with respect to the ongoing interest in the relationship between Romanticism and the Gothic

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1 Gothic and Romantic: An Historical Overview -- Part I Gothic Modes and Forms -- 2 Graveyard Writing and the Rise of the Gothic -- 3 Gothic Romance -- 4 The Gothic Stage: Visions of Instability, Performances of Anxiety -- 5 Gothic Poetry and First-Generation Romanticism -- 6 Gothic and Second-Generation Romanticism: Lord Byron, P. B. Shelley, John Polidori and Mary Shelley -- 7 Political Gothic Fiction -- 8 Shorter Gothic Fictions: Ballads and Chapbooks, Tales and Fragments -- 9 Oriental Gothic -- 10 Gothic Parody -- Part II National and International Borders -- 11 Gothic Borders: Scotland, Ireland and Wales -- 12 Gothic Travels -- 13 The Romantic and the Gothic in Europe: The Elementary Spirits in France and Germany as a Vehicle for the Transmission and Development of the Fantastique, 1772-1835 -- 14 American Gothic Passages -- PART III Reading the Romantic Gothic -- 15 Gothic and the Language of Terror -- 16 Gothic Science -- 17 Gender and Sexuality in Gothic Romanticism -- 18 Gothic Forms of Time: Architecture, Romanticism, Medievalism -- 19 Gothic Theology -- Notes on Contributors -- Index