{"product_id":"the-gothic-isbn-9780631220626","title":"The Gothic","description":"This guide provides an overview of the most significant issues and debates in Gothic studies. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli style=\"list-style: none\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides an overview of the most significant issues and debates in Gothic studies.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplains the origins and development of the term Gothic.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplores the evolution of the Gothic in both literary and non-literary forms, including art, architecture and film.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eFeatures authoritative readings of key works, ranging from Horace Walpole’s \u003ci\u003eThe Castle of Otranto\u003c\/i\u003e to Bret Easton Ellis’s \u003ci\u003eAmerican Psycho\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eConsiders recurrent concerns of the Gothic such as persecution and paranoia, key motifs such as the haunted castle, and figures such as the vampire and the monster.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes a chronology of key Gothic texts, including fiction and film from the 1760s to the present day, and a comprehensive bibliography.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  How to Use This Book. \u003cp\u003eChronology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBackgrounds and Contexts.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCivilisation and the Goths.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGothic in the Eighteenth Century.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGothic and Romantic.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eScience, Industry and the Gothic.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVictorian Gothic.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eArt and Architecture.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGothic and Decadence.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eImperial Gothic.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGothic Postmodernism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePostcolonial Gothic.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGoths and Gothic Subcultures.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGothic Film.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGothic and the Graphic Novel.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWriters of Gothic.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Harrison Ainsworth (1805-82).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJane Austen (1775-1817).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJ. G. Ballard (1930-).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIain Banks (1954-).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Banville (1945-).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eClive Barker (1952-).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Beckford (1760-1844).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eE. F. Benson (1867-1940).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAmbrose Bierce (1842-1914).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlgernon Blackwood (1869-1951).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRobert Bloch (1917-1994).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eElizabeth Bowen (1899-1973).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Elizabeth Braddon (1835-1915).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCharlotte Brontë (1816-1855) and Emily Brontë (1818-1848).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCharles Brockden Brown (1771-1810).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEdward George Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJames Branch Cabell (1879-1958).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRamsey Campbell (1946-).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAngela Carter (1940-1992).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRobert W. Chambers (1865-1933).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilkie Collins (1824-1889).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMarie Corelli (1855-1924).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCharlotte Dacre (1771\/1772?-1825).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWalter de la Mare (1873-1956).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAugust Derleth (1909-1971).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCharles Dickens (1812-1870).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Isak Dinesen' (1885-1962).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eArthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLord Dunsany (1878-1957).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBret Easton Ellis (1964-).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Faulkner (1897-1962).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eElizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Gibson (1948-).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Godwin (1756-1836).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eH. Rider Haggard (1856-1925).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJames Herbert (1943-).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Hope Hodgson (1877-1918).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eE. T. A. Hoffmann (1776-1822).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJames Hogg (1770-1835).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWashington Irving (1783-1859).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eG. P. R. James (1799-1860).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHenry James (1843-1916).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eM. R. James (1862-1936).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStephen King (1947-).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRudyard Kipling (1865-1936).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrancis Lathom (1777-1832).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJ. Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSophia Lee (1750-1824).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVernon Lee (1856-1935).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eM. G. Lewis (1775-1818).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDavid Lindsay (1878-1945).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eH. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGeorge MacDonald (1824-1905).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eArthur Machen (1863-1947).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJames Macpherson (1736-1796).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRichard Matheson (1926-).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCharles Robert Maturin (1780-1824).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHerman Melville (1819-1891).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJoyce Carol Oates (1938-).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMargaret Oliphant (1828-1897).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMervyn Peake (1911-1968).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEdgar Allan Poe (1809-1849).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Polidori (1795-1821).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRadcliffe, Ann (1764-1823).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReeve, Clara (1729-1807).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eG. W. M. Reynolds (1814-1879).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnne Rice (1941-).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWalter Scott (1771-1832).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCharlotte Smith (1740-1806).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRobert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBram Stoker (1847-1912).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHorace Walpole (1717-1797).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eH. G. Wells (1866-1946).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEdith Wharton (1862-1937).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOscar Wilde (1854-1900).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKey Works.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHorace Walpole, \u003ci\u003eThe Castle of Otranto\u003c\/i\u003e (1764).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Beckford, \u003ci\u003eVathek\u003c\/i\u003e (1786).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnn Radcliffe, \u003ci\u003eThe Mysteries of Udolpho\u003c\/i\u003e (1794).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Godwin, \u003ci\u003eCaleb Williams\u003c\/i\u003e (1794).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eM. G. Lewis, \u003ci\u003eThe Monk\u003c\/i\u003e (1796).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Shelley, \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/i\u003e (1818, revised 1831).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eC. R. Maturin, \u003ci\u003eMelmoth the Wanderer\u003c\/i\u003e (1820).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJames Hogg, \u003ci\u003eThe Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner\u003c\/i\u003e (1824).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEmily Brontë, \u003ci\u003eWuthering Heights\u003c\/i\u003e (1847).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilkie Collins, \u003ci\u003eThe Woman in White\u003c\/i\u003e (1860).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSheridan Le Fanu, \u003ci\u003eUncle Silas\u003c\/i\u003e (1864).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRobert Louis Stevenson, \u003ci\u003eThe Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde\u003c\/i\u003e (1886).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBram Stoker, \u003ci\u003eDracula\u003c\/i\u003e (1897).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHenry James, \u003ci\u003eThe Turn of the Screw\u003c\/i\u003e (1898).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRobert Bloch, \u003ci\u003ePsycho\u003c\/i\u003e (1959).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnne Rice, \u003ci\u003eInterview with the Vampire\u003c\/i\u003e (1976).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStephen King, \u003ci\u003eThe Shining\u003c\/i\u003e (1977).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBret Easton Ellis, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Psycho\u003c\/i\u003e (1991).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThemes and Topics.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Haunted Castle.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Monster.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Vampire.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePersecution and Paranoia.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFemale Gothic.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Uncanny.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe History of Abuse.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHallucination and the Narcotic.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGuide to Further Reading.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e \"The overall result is wonderfully informative and suggestive for the beginning student, while offering some striking additional insights spread across the book for advanced students of Gothic who have yet to consider such contexts for it as postcolonialism, 'goth' subcultures and 'Hallucination and the Narcotic'.\" \u003ci\u003eGothic Studies\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003eDavid Punter\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of English at the University of Bristol. He has previously taught at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and at Fudan University in Shanghai, among other institutions. His recent publications include\u003ci\u003e Postcolonial Imaginings\u003c\/i\u003e (2000), \u003ci\u003eWriting the Passions\u003c\/i\u003e (2000), \u003ci\u003eGothic Pathologies\u003c\/i\u003e (1998), and \u003ci\u003eThe Literature of Terror\u003c\/i\u003e (2 vols., 1996). He has also published four volumes of poetry.\u003cb\u003eGlennis Byron\u003c\/b\u003e is Reader in English Studies at the University of Stirling. She has also taught at the University of Alberta in Canada. Her previous publications include \u003ci\u003eDramatic Monologue\u003c\/i\u003e (2003), \u003ci\u003eLetitia Landon: The Woman Behind L.E.L\u003c\/i\u003e (1995), and \u003ci\u003eElizabeth Barrett Browning and the Poetry of Love\u003c\/i\u003e (1989).  This guide provides an overview of the most significant issues and debates in Gothic studies.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe guide is divided into four parts:\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli style=\"list-style: none\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe opening section explains the origins and development of the term ‘Gothic’, considers the particular features of the Gothic within specific periods, and explores its evolution in both literary and non-literary forms, such as art, architecture and film.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe following section contains extended entries on major writers of the Gothic, pointing to the most significant features of their work.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe third section features authoritative readings of key works, ranging from Horace Walpole’s \u003ci\u003eThe Castle of Otranto\u003c\/i\u003e to Bret Easton Ellis’s \u003ci\u003eAmerican Psycho\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eFinally, the text considers recurrent concerns of the Gothic such as persecution and paranoia, key motifs such as the haunted castle, and figures such as the vampire and the monster.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eSupplementary material includes a chronology of key Gothic texts, listing literature and film from 1757 to 2000, and a comprehensive guide to further reading.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990242672869,"sku":"NP9780631220626","price":147.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780631220626.jpg?v=1761787035","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-gothic-isbn-9780631220626","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}