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

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 ...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Edinburgh Companions to the Gothic : ECG
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.) :; 2 B/W illustrations
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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