Gothic Fiction The Beginnings

Author : Markman Ellis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780748611959
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of Gothic Fiction written by Markman Ellis and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Written with an undergraduate audience in mind, this text offers a synthesis of the main topics of Gothic interest and clearly argued summaries of critical debate. It signals its difference from recent psychoanalytic readings of Gothic and argues instead for a more complex, multilayered approach via an historicist reading of gothic fiction. Illustrated with ten black and white plates and including an up-to-date bibliography, this will be an ideal text for all those with an interest in the Gothic."--BOOK JACKET.

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Publisher : VMU Press
ISBN 13 : 9955125144
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gothic Fiction: The Beginnings written by and published by VMU Press. This book was released on with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jarlath Killeen
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748690816
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Emergence of Irish Gothic Fiction written by Jarlath Killeen and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-11 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a new account of the emergence of Irish gothic fiction in mid-eighteenth century This book provides a robustly theorised and thoroughly historicised account of the 'beginnings' of Irish gothic fiction, maps the theoretical terrain covered by other critics, and puts forward a new history of the emergence of the genre in Ireland. The main argument the book makes is that the Irish gothic should be read in the context of the split in Irish Anglican public opinion that opened in the 1750s, and seen as a fictional instrument of liberal Anglican opinion in a changing political landscape. By providing a fully historicized account of the beginnings of the genre in Ireland, the book also addresses the theoretical controversies that have bedevilled discussion of the Irish gothic in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. The book gives ample space to the critical debate, and rigorously defends a reading of the Irish gothic as an Anglican, Patriot tradition. This reading demonstrates the connections between little-known Irish gothic fictions of the mid-eighteenth century (The Adventures of Miss Sophia Berkley and Longsword), and the Irish gothic tradition more generally, and also the gothic as a genre of global significance.

Author : Jerrold E. Hogle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107494486
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction written by Jerrold E. Hogle and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-08-29 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gothic as a form of fiction-making has played a major role in Western culture since the late eighteenth century. In this volume, fourteen world-class experts on the Gothic provide thorough and revealing accounts of this haunting-to-horrifying type of fiction from the 1760s (the decade of The Castle of Otranto, the first so-called 'Gothic story') to the end of the twentieth century (an era haunted by filmed and computerized Gothic simulations). Along the way, these essays explore the connections of Gothic fictions to political and industrial revolutions, the realistic novel, the theatre, Romantic and post-Romantic poetry, nationalism and racism from Europe to America, colonized and post-colonial populations, the rise of film and other visual technologies, the struggles between 'high' and 'popular' culture, changing psychological attitudes towards human identity, gender and sexuality, and the obscure lines between life and death, sanity and madness. The volume also includes a chronology and guides to further reading.

Author : Katarzyna Więckowska
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1848880995
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gothic: Studies in History, Identity and Space written by Katarzyna Więckowska and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gothic: Studies in History, Identity and Space is a collection of articles critically examining numerous aspects of the genre in a variety of texts, such as fiction, film and popular culture artefacts, and in various times and places, starting from the classic gothic novels and ending with contemporary gothicised cultural practices.

Author : Scott Thomas
Publisher : Inkshares
ISBN 13 : 1942645821
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kill Creek written by Scott Thomas and published by Inkshares. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A psychological horror with a literary twist, Kill Creek delivers elevated prose, while evoking the unnerving, atmospheric terror essential to greats like Peter Straub and Stephen King—a haunting that lingers long after turning the last page.

Author : Lori A. Paige
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476634173
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gothic Romance Wave written by Lori A. Paige and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-09-19 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:  The late 1960s and early 1970s saw the birth of modern feminism, the sexual revolution, and strong growth in the mass-market publishing industry. Women made up a large part of the book market, and Gothic fiction became a higher popular staple. Victoria Holt, Mary Stewart and Phyllis Whitney emerged as prominent authors, while the standardized paperback Gothic sold in the millions. Pitched at middle-class women of all ages, Gothics paved the way for contemporary fiction categories such as urban fantasy, paranormal romance and vampire erotica. Though not as popular today as they once were, Gothic paperbacks retain a cult following—and the books themselves have become collectors’ items. They were also the first popular novels to present strong heroines as agents of liberation and transformation. This work offers the missing chapters of the Gothic story, from the imaginative creations of Ann Radcliffe and the Brontë sisters to the bestseller 50 Shades of Grey.

Author : Chris Baldick
Publisher : Oxford Books of Prose & Verse
ISBN 13 : 9780199561537
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales written by Chris Baldick and published by Oxford Books of Prose & Verse. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together the work of such writers as Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Arthur Conan Doyle, Eudora Welty, Thomas Hardy, William Faulkner, Isak Dinesen, and Joyce Carol Oates, The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales presents 37 sinister and unsettling tales for all lovers of ghost stories, fantasy, and horror.

Author : Jerrold E. Hogle
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474427790
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gothic and Theory written by Jerrold E. Hogle and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-14 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection provides a thorough representation of the early and ongoing conversation between Gothic and theory - philosophical, aesthetic, psychological and cultural.

Author : Joseph O'Connor
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780156029667
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Star of the Sea written by Joseph O'Connor and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2004 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: St. Petersburg High school juniors Dicey Bell, a baseball star, and Jack Chen, who loves science and role-playing games, discover a mutual attraction when paired for a project, but on their first date, a zombie-producing fungus sends them on the run.