Romantic Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion

Angela Wright; Dale Townshend

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2015

Romantic Gothic

An Edinburgh Companion

Angela Wright and Dale Townshend

In the series Edinburgh Companions to the Gothic

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748696758

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About this book

Provides a detailed, rigorous account of the rise and development of the Gothic aesthetic in British, American and European culture between 1740 and 1840

Self-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 Features

Subjects early Gothic writing to sustained critical attention and re-examination
Situates 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

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
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1 Gothic and Romantic: An Historical Overview Dale Townshend and Angela Wright Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I Gothic Modes and Forms
2 Graveyard Writing and the Rise of the Gothic Vincent Quinn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
3 Gothic Romance Deborah Russell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
4 The Gothic Stage: Visions of Instability, Performances of Anxiety Diego Saglia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
5 Gothic Poetry and First-Generation Romanticism Joel Faflak Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
6 Gothic and Second-Generation Romanticism: Lord Byron, P. B. Shelley, John Polidori and Mary Shelley Jerrold E Hogle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	112
7 Political Gothic Fiction Robert Miles Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
8 Shorter Gothic Fictions: Ballads and Chapbooks, Tales and Fragments Douglass H. Thomson and Diane Long Hoeveler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
9 Oriental Gothic Peter J. Kitson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
10 Gothic Parody Natalie Neill Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
Part II National and International Borders
11 Gothic Borders: Scotland, Ireland and Wales Meiko O’Halloran Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
12 Gothic Travels Mark Bennett Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	224
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 Victor Sage Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
14 American Gothic Passages Carol Margaret Davison Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
PART III Reading the Romantic Gothic
15 Gothic and the Language of Terror Jane Hodson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289
16 Gothic Science Andrew Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	306
17 Gender and Sexuality in Gothic Romanticism Patrick R. O’Malley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	322
18 Gothic Forms of Time: Architecture, Romanticism, Medievalism Tom Duggett Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	339
19 Gothic Theology Alison Milbank Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	361
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	377
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	383

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 272
Illustrations
- Other: 2 B/W illustrations
Keywords: Literary Studies

eBook

Published: November 16, 2015
ISBN: 9780748696758