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Romantic Gothic : An Edinburgh Companion.

Wright, Angela.

Romantic Gothic : An Edinburgh Companion. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (401 pages) - Edinburgh Companions to the Gothic Series . - Edinburgh Companions to the Gothic Series .

Intro -- 1. Gothic and Romantic: An Historical Overview -- Part 1: Gothic Modes and Forms -- 2. Graveyard Writing and the Rise of the Gothic -- 3. Gothic Romance -- 4. The Gothic Stage: Visions of Instability, Performances of Anxiety -- 5. Gothic Poetry and First-Generation Romanticism -- 6. Gothic and Second-Generation Romanticism: Lord Byron, P. B. Shelley, John Polidori and Mary Shelley -- 7. Political Gothic Fiction -- 8. Shorter Gothic Fictions: Ballads and Chapbooks, Tales and Fragments -- 9. Oriental Gothic -- 10. Gothic Parody -- Part II: National and International Borders -- 11. Gothic Borders: Scotland, Ireland and Wales -- 12. Gothic Travels -- 13. The Romantic and the Gothic in Europe: The Elementary Spirits in France and Germany as a Vehicle for the Transmission and Development of the Fantastique, 1772-1835 -- 14. American Gothic Passages -- Part III: Reading the Romantic Gothic -- 15. Gothic and the Language of Terror -- 16. Gothic Science -- 17. Gender and Sexuality in Gothic Romanticism -- 18. Gothic Forms of Time: Architecture, Romanticism, Medievalism -- 19. Gothic Theology -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.

Romantic Gothic: An Edinburgh Companionoffers a rigorous account of the Gothic impulses informing British, American and European literary culture of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

9781474409230


American literature-Themes, motives.
English literature-Themes, motives.
European literature-Themes, motives.
Literature, Modern-18th century-History and criticism.
Literature, Modern-19th century-History and criticism.
Gothic revival (Literature).
Romanticism.


Electronic books.

PN3435 .R59 2016

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