This volume, which weds a socio-historical and intellectual approach to classic British Gothic literature, is a perfect introduction to the genre for the student and lay reader alike. Works by gothic authors such as Horace Walpole, Matthew Lewis, Ann Radcliffe, William Godwin, and Mary Shelley, as well as traditions like the Female Gothic, are examined against the backdrop of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British political and cultural developments, culminating in a detailed and accessible exploration of the gothic’s major motifs and themes.
192 pages | 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 | © 2009
Literature and Literary Criticism: General Criticism and Critical Theory
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Reviews
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Chronology
Introduction and Critical Overview
1. Gothic Enlightenment/Enlightenment Gothic
2. Anatomizing the Gothic
3. The Female Gothic
4. Revolutionary Gothic/Gothic Revolutions
5. Female Gothic Reconfigurations
6. The Gothic Romantics/Romanticizing the Gothic
7. Revitalizing the Gothic
8. Afterword—Victorian Gothic
Endnotes
Bibliography
Annotated Bibliography
Index
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