Gothic: Eighteenth-century Gothic : Radcliffe, reader, writer, romancerFred Botting, Dale Townshend This collection brings together key writings which convey the breadth of what is understood to be Gothic, and the ways in which it has produced, reinforced, and undermined received ideas about literature and culture. In addition to its interests in the late eighteenth-century origins of the form, this collection anthologizes path-breaking essays on most aspects of gothic production, including some of its nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first century manifestations across a broad range of cultural media. |
Contents
General Introduction | 1 |
Some side lights on the theory of the Gothic romance | 19 |
The useful myth of Gothic ancestry | 27 |
Night thoughts on the Gothic novel | 38 |
Narrative enclosure as textual ruin an archaeology of Gothic consciousness | 55 |
Deserts ruins and troubled waters female dreams in fiction and the development of the Gothic novel | 83 |
Female Gothic | 123 |
The restless labyrinth cryptonomy in the Gothic novel | 145 |
Fact and fancy in the Gothic novel | 212 |
The Gothic way of death in English fiction 17901820 | 223 |
Imperial Gothic atavism and the occult in the British adventure novel 18801914 | 233 |
American female Gothic | 260 |
Gothic mirrors and feminine indentity | 276 |
Postcolonial Gothic Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and the Sobhraj Case | 293 |
Signs of evil Bataille Baudrillard and postmodern Gothic | 307 |
Opening up | 326 |
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