Provides a survey of literary gothicism from its origins in Renaissance revenge tragedy, through eighteenth century novels and plays, to nineteenth and twentieth century film and fiction.
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 ...
This volume, covering entries from "Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu" to "Oscar Wilde," includes a primary sources section written by the featured author, overviews of the author's career and general studies, and in-depth analyses of seminal works ...
For a very recent—and essentially Christian—version of this reading, see Andrew J. Welburn, Power and Self-Consciousness in the Poetry of Shelley (London: Macmillan, 1986), esp. pp. 1-7, 144-66, and 186-97. 9. This argument is proffered ...
De Manian deconstruction's Gothic reanimation of the machine as an autonomic nervous system can be set against the current techno-euphoria among posthumanists influenced by Deleuze and Guattari's theories of machinic assemblages.
Also including a chronology and guide to further reading, this volume offers a comprehensive account of the importance of Gothic to modern life and thought.
... old Mary's passing, the Lord is haunted by “Screech-owls appalling,” reminiscent of the avenging female Furies in Aeschylus' ancient Greek Orestia, and, because they “shriek like a ghost,” the Lord recalls the “All Alone” orphan in ...
This Companion explores the Gothic across literature, film, television, and cyberspace, revealing how it has proliferated since 1900 as an expression of modernity.