The History of Gothic Fiction / / Markman Ellis.
GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748611959);The History of Gothic Fiction debates the rise of the genre from its origins in the late eighteenth-century novel through nineteenth-century fictions of tyrants, monsters, conspirators and vampires to the twentieth-century zombie film.Approachin...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2000 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (224 p.) :; 10 Plates, black & white |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of illustrations
- Prologue: The history of gothic fiction
- 1. History and the gothic novel
- I. What's gothic about the gothic novel?
- II. Reading gothic histories: Walpole's The Castle of Otranto Patriotism, Wilkes and the gothic
- 2. Female gothic and the secret terrors of sensibility
- I. Radcliffe and the politics of female sensibility
- II. Radcliffe and the politics of masculine sensibility
- III. Gothic radicals: Wollstonecraft's The Wrongs of Woman
- 3. Revolution and libertinism in the gothic novel
- I. Compositional politics of The Monk
- II. Lewis and the French Revolutionary Wars
- III. Publication and the politics of censorship
- 4. Science, conspiracy and the gothic enlightenment
- I. Charles Brockden Brown: conspiracy, enlightenment and the supernatural explained
- II. Fictions of science in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Alchemy and modern science
- 5. Vampires, credulity and reason
- I. The 1730s vampire controversy
- II. Romance vampires and the romantic poets
- III. History, the vampire and Dracula
- 6. Zombies and the occultation of slavery
- I. Slavery and the zombie
- II. Twentieth-century gothic and the zombies of modernity
- III. The occultation of miscegenation and slavery in the zombie film
- Select bibliography of gothic resources
- Index