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A companion to the gothic / ed. by David Punter

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 4Publication details: Oxford : Blackwell Publishers, 2001Description: xix, 323 sISBN:
  • 0631231994
  • 9780631231998
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.1 GOT
Contents:
Part I: In Gothic Darkly -- Heterotopia, History, Culture Fred Botting; The Goths in History and Pre-Gothic Gothic, Robin Sowerby; European Gothic, Neil Cornwell. Part II The \'Original\' Gothic: Ann Radcliffe and Matthew Lewis, Robert Miles; Mary Shelley, Author of Frankenstein, Nora Crook; Walter Scott, James Hogg and Scottish Gothic, Ian Duncan; Irish Gothic -- C. R. Maturin and J.S. LeFanu, Victor Sage; The Political Culture of Gothic Drama, David Worrall. Part III Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century Transmutations: Nineteenth-century American Gothic, Allan Lloyd Smith; The Ghost Story, Julia Briggs; Gothic in the 1890s, Glennis Byron; Fictional Vampires in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, William Hughes; Horror Fiction -- In Search of a Definition, Clive Bloom; Love Bites -- Contemporary Women\'s Vampire Fictions, Gina Wisker; Gothic Film, Heidi Kaye. Part IV Gothic, Theory and Genre: Gothic Criticism, Chris Baldick and Robert Mighall; Psychoanalysis and the Gothic, Michelle Masse; Comic Gothic, Avril Horner and Sue Zlosnik. Part V The Continuing Debate: Can You Forgive Her? The Gothic Heroine and Her Critics, Kate Ferguson Ellis; Picture This -- Stephen King\'s Queer Gothic, Steven Bruhm; Seeing Things -- Gothic and the Madness of Interpretation, Scott Brewster; The Gothic Ghost of the Counterfeit and the Progress of Abjection, Jerrold E. Hogle; The Magical Realism of the Contemporary Gothic, Lucie Armitt; The Uncanny, David Punter.
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Standard Loan LSAD Library Main Collection 306.1 GOT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 39002100467605

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This Companion is a standard reference work for scholars and students of the Gothic from its origins to the present day. Providing stimulating insights into Gothic writing, its history and genealogy, it offers coverage of criticism of the Gothic and of the various theoretical approaches it has inspired and spawned.

Part I: In Gothic Darkly -- Heterotopia, History, Culture Fred Botting; The Goths in History and Pre-Gothic Gothic, Robin Sowerby; European Gothic, Neil Cornwell. Part II The \'Original\' Gothic: Ann Radcliffe and Matthew Lewis, Robert Miles; Mary Shelley, Author of Frankenstein, Nora Crook; Walter Scott, James Hogg and Scottish Gothic, Ian Duncan; Irish Gothic -- C. R. Maturin and J.S. LeFanu, Victor Sage; The Political Culture of Gothic Drama, David Worrall. Part III Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century Transmutations: Nineteenth-century American Gothic, Allan Lloyd Smith; The Ghost Story, Julia Briggs; Gothic in the 1890s, Glennis Byron; Fictional Vampires in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, William Hughes; Horror Fiction -- In Search of a Definition, Clive Bloom; Love Bites -- Contemporary Women\'s Vampire Fictions, Gina Wisker; Gothic Film, Heidi Kaye. Part IV Gothic, Theory and Genre: Gothic Criticism, Chris Baldick and Robert Mighall; Psychoanalysis and the Gothic, Michelle Masse; Comic Gothic, Avril Horner and Sue Zlosnik. Part V The Continuing Debate: Can You Forgive Her? The Gothic Heroine and Her Critics, Kate Ferguson Ellis; Picture This -- Stephen King\'s Queer Gothic, Steven Bruhm; Seeing Things -- Gothic and the Madness of Interpretation, Scott Brewster; The Gothic Ghost of the Counterfeit and the Progress of Abjection, Jerrold E. Hogle; The Magical Realism of the Contemporary Gothic, Lucie Armitt; The Uncanny, David Punter.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Introduction: The Ghost of a History
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Acknowledgements
  • Part 1 Gothic Backgrounds
  • 1 In Gothic Darkly: Heterotopia, History, Culture
  • 2 The Goths in History and Pre-Gothic Gothic
  • 3 European Gothic
  • Part 2 The 'Original' Gothic
  • 4 Ann Radcliffe and Matthew Lewis
  • 5 Mary Shelley, Arthur of Frankenstein
  • 6
  • 7 Irish Gothic
  • 8 The Political Culture of Gothic Drama
  • Part 3 Nineteenth-and Twentieth-Century Transmutations
  • 9 Nineteenth-Century American Gothic
  • 10 The Ghost Story
  • 11 Gothic in the 1890s
  • 12 Fictional Vampires in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
  • 13 Horror Fiction: In Search of a Definition
  • 14 Love Bites: Contemporary Women's Vampire Fictions
  • 15 Gothic Film
  • 16 Shape and Shadow: On Poetry and the Uncanny
  • Part 4 Gothic Theory and Genre
  • 17 Gothic Criticism
  • 18 Psychoanalysis and the Gothic
  • 19 Comic Gothic
  • Part 5 The Continuing Debate
  • 20 Can You Forgive Her? The Gothic Heroine and Her Critics
  • 21 Picture This: Stephen King's Queer Gothic
  • 22 Seeing Things: Gothic and the Madness of Interpretation
  • 23 The Gothic Ghost of the Counterfeit and the Progress of Abjection
  • 24 The Magical Realism of the Contemporary Gothic
  • Index

Author notes provided by Syndetics

David Punter is Professor of English at University of Bristol. He has written extensively on Gothic, romantic and modern literature, as well as on literary theory and psychoanalysis, and has also published short stories and several volumes of poetry. He is chair of the executive of the International Gothic Association, as well as Past President of the British Association for Romantic Studies. His publications include The Literature of Terror: Volume 1: The Gothic Tradition and The Literature of Terror: Volume 2: The Modern Gothic.

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