York Notes Companions Gothic Literature

York Notes Companions Gothic Literature
ISBN-10
1292003847
ISBN-13
9781292003849
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
328
Language
English
Published
2011
Publisher
Pearson UK
Author
Susan Chaplin

Description

An exploration of Gothic literature from its origins in Horace Walpole’s 1764 classic The Castle of Otranto, through Romantic and Victorian Gothic to modernist and postmodernist takes on the form. The volume surveys key debates such as Female Gothic, the Gothic narrator and nation and empire, and focuses on a wide range of texts including The Mysteries of Udolpho, Frankenstein, Jane Eyre, Dracula, The Magic Toyshop and The Shining.

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