The Cambridge companion to gothic fiction

Summary: "Fourteen world-class experts on the Gothic provide thorough accounts of this haunting-to-horrifying genre from the 1760s to the end of the twentieth century. Essays explore the connections of Gothic fictions to political and industrial revolutions, the realistic novel, the theater, Romantic and post-Romantic poetry, nationalism and racism from Europe to America, colonized and post-colonial populations, the rise of film, the struggles between "high" and "popular" culture, and changing attitudes towards human identity, life and death, sanity and madness."

Record details

ISBN: 0521794668 (pbk.)
ISBN: 0521791243 (hard)
Physical Description: print
xxv, 327 p. ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2c002.

Content descriptions

General Note:	The volume also includes a chronology and guides to further reading.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-310) and index. Includes filmography: p. 311-312.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction: the Gothic in western culture -- The genesis of "Gothic" fiction -- The 1790s: the effulgence of Gothic -- French and German Gothic: the beginnings -- Gothic fictions and Romantic writing in Britain -- Scottish and Irish Gothic -- English Gothic theatre -- The Victorian Gothic in English novels and stories, 1830-1880 -- The rise of American Gothic -- British Gothic fiction, 1885-1930 -- The Gothic on screen -- Colonial and postcolonial Gothic: the Caribbean -- The contemporary Gothic: why we need it -- Aftergothic: consumption, machines, and black holes.