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Gothic literature /

This introductory study provides a thorough grounding in both the history of Gothic literature and the way in which Gothic texts have been (and can be) critically read. The book opens with a chronology and an introduction to the principal texts and key critical terms, followed by four chapters: The...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Smith, Andrew, 1964-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2007.
Colección:Edinburgh critical guides to literature.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Gothic histories
  • Reading the gothic
  • Burke
  • Freud
  • The gothic heyday 1760-1820
  • Defining the gothic: Otranto
  • Radcliffe and Lewis
  • American gothic
  • Reading Frankenstein
  • The gothic, 1820-1865
  • Gothic mutations: poetry
  • Edgar Allen Poe and the American gothic
  • Gothic mutations: prose
  • Reading Jane Eyre
  • Gothic Proximities, 1865-1900
  • Hidden identities: ghosts
  • Gothic doubles
  • Race and history: post-bellum gothic
  • Reading Dracula
  • Twentieth century
  • The ghost story as the end of gothic?
  • Radio and film
  • Contemparary fiction: postmodern gothic?
  • Reading The silence of the lambs.