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| Author | : M. Wester |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 499 |
| Release | : 2012-11-09 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1137315288 |
Download African American Gothic Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This new critique of contemporary African-American fiction explores its intersections with and critiques of the Gothic genre. Wester reveals the myriad ways writers manipulate the genre to critique the gothic's traditional racial ideologies and the mechanisms that were appropriated and re-articulated as a useful vehicle for the enunciation of the peculiar terrors and complexities of black existence in America. Re-reading major African American literary texts such as Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Of One Blood, Cane, Invisible Man, and Corregidora African American Gothic investigates texts from each major era in African American Culture to show how the gothic has consistently circulated throughout the African American literary canon.
| Author | : Faye Ringel |
| Publisher | : Anthem Press |
| Total Pages | : 114 |
| Release | : 2022-02 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1785279041 |
Download The Gothic Literature and History of New England Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Gothic Literature and History of New England surveys the history, nature and future of the Gothic mode in the region, from the witch trials through the Black Lives Matter Movement. Texts include Cotton Mather and other Puritan divines who collected folklore of the supernatural; the Frontier Gothic of Indian captivity narratives; the canonical authors of the American Renaissance such as Melville and Hawthorne; the women's ghost story tradition and the Domestic Gothic from Harriet Beecher Stowe to Charlotte Perkins Gilman to Shirley Jackson; H. P. Lovecraft; Stephen King; and writers of the current generation who respond to racial and gender issues. The work brings to the surface the religious intolerance, racism and misogyny inherent in the New England Gothic, and how these nightmares continue to haunt literature and popular culture—films, television and more.
| Author | : Douglass H. Thomson |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Total Pages | : 543 |
| Release | : 2001-11-30 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0313006911 |
Download Gothic Writers Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
With its roots in Romanticism, antiquarianism, and the primacy of the imagination, the Gothic genre originated in the 18th century, flourished in the 19th, and continues to thrive today. This reference is designed to accommodate the critical and bibliographical needs of a broad spectrum of users, from scholars seeking critical assistance to general readers wanting an introduction to the Gothic, its abundant criticism, and the present state of Gothic Studies. The volume includes alphabetically arranged entries on more than 50 Gothic writers from Horace Walpole to Stephen King. Entries for Russian, Japanese, French, and German writers give an international scope to the book, while the focus on English and American literature shows the dynamic nature of Gothicism today. Each of the entries is devoted to a particular author or group of authors whose works exhibit Gothic elements, beginning with a primary bibliography of works by the writer, including modern editions. This section is followed by a critical essay, which examines the author's use of Gothic themes, the author's place in the Gothic tradition, and the critical reception of the author's works. The entries close with selected, annotated bibliographies of scholarly studies. The volume concludes with a timeline and a bibliography of the most important broad scholarly works on the Gothic.
| Author | : E. J. Clery |
| Publisher | : Writers and Their Work (Paperb |
| Total Pages | : 177 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0746311443 |
Download Women's Gothic Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Female writers of Gothic were hell-raisers in more than one sense: not only did they specialize in evoking scenes of horror, cruelty, and supernaturalism, but in doing so they exploded the literary conventions of the day, and laid claim to realms of the imagination hitherto reserved for men. They were rewarded with popular success, large profits, and even critical adulation. E. J. Clery's acclaimed study tells the strange but true story of women's Gothic. She identifies contemporary fascination with the operation of the passions and the example of the great tragic actress Sarah Siddons as enabling factors, and then examines in depth the careers of two pioneers of the genre, Clara Reeve and Sophia Lee, its reigning queen, Ann Radcliffe, and the daring experimentalists Joanna Baillie and Charlotte Dacre. The account culminates with Mary Shelley, whose Frankenstein (1818) has attained mythical status. Students and scholars as well as general readers will find Women's Gothic a stimulating introduction to an important literary mode.
| Author | : Susan J. Wolfson |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 199 |
| Release | : 2015-05-21 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0521513413 |
Download Reading John Keats Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book explores John Keats's major works in the context of his reading and the world in which he shaped his career.
| Author | : Steffen Hantke |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 306 |
| Release | : 2015-12-07 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1317383230 |
Download War Gothic in Literature and Culture Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In the context of the current explosion of interest in Gothic literature and popular culture, this interdisciplinary collection of essays explores for the first time the rich and long-standing relationship between war and the Gothic. Critics have described the global Seven Year’s War as the "crucible" from which the Gothic genre emerged in the eighteenth century. Since then, the Gothic has been a privileged mode for representing violence and extreme emotions and situations. Covering the period from the American Civil War to the War on Terror, this collection examines how the Gothic has provided writers an indispensable toolbox for narrating, critiquing, and representing real and fictional wars. The book also sheds light on the overlap and complicity between Gothic aesthetics and certain aspects of military experience, including the bodily violation and mental dissolution of combat, the dehumanization of "others," psychic numbing, masculinity in crisis, and the subjective experience of trauma and memory. Engaging with popular forms such as young adult literature, gaming, and comic books, as well as literature, film, and visual art, War Gothic provides an important and timely overview of war-themed Gothic art and narrative by respected experts in the field of Gothic Studies. This book makes important contributions to the fields of Gothic Literature, War Literature, Popular Culture, American Studies, and Film, Television & Media.
| Author | : Jay Ellis |
| Publisher | : Salem Press |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : American fiction |
| ISBN | : 9781429838238 |
Download Southern Gothic Literature Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Presents a diverse collection of representative texts from a group of international critics. In addition to exemplary novels from established writers, such as Edora Welty, Flannery O'Conner, Carson McCullers, and Cormac McCarthy, works explored here include poetry, a play, and a fairy tale novella.
| Author | : Marie Mulvey-Roberts |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 379 |
| Release | : 2016-11-09 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0230239439 |
Download The Handbook of the Gothic Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This revised new edition of The Handbook of the Gothic contains over one hundred entries on Gothic writers, themes, terms, concepts, contexts and locations, featuring new entries on writers including Stephen King and Wilkie Collins, new genres and a new Preface which situates the handbook within current studies of the Gothic.
| Author | : Jane Aaron |
| Publisher | : University of Wales Press |
| Total Pages | : 272 |
| Release | : 2013-05-15 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0708326099 |
Download Welsh Gothic Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Welsh Gothic, the first study of its kind, introduces readers to the array of Welsh Gothic literature published from 1780 to the present day. Informed by postcolonial and psychoanalytic theory, it argues that many of the fears encoded in Welsh Gothic writing are specific to the history of Welsh people, telling us much about the changing ways in which Welsh people have historically seen themselves and been perceived by others. The first part of the book explores Welsh Gothic writing from its beginnings in the last decades of the eighteenth century to 1997. The second part focuses on figures specific to the Welsh Gothic genre who enter literature from folk lore and local superstition, such as the sin-eater, cŵn Annwn (hellhounds), dark druids and Welsh witches. Contents Prologue: ‘A Long Terror’ PART I: HAUNTED BY HISTORY 1. Cambria Gothica (1780s–1820s) 2. An Underworld of One’s Own (1830s–1900s). 3. Haunted Communities (1900s–1940s). 4. Land of the Living Dead (1940s–1997). PART II: ‘THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE CELTIC TWILIGHT’ 5. Witches, Druids and the Hounds of Annwn. 6. The Sin-eater Epilogue: Post-devolution Gothic Notes Select Bibliography Index
| Author | : Andrew Smith |
| Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
| Total Pages | : 224 |
| Release | : 2013-03-10 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0748647430 |
Download Gothic Literature Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
New edition of bestselling introductory text outlining the history and ways of reading Gothic literatureThis revised edition includes:* A new chapter on Contemporary Gothic which explores the Gothic of the early twenty first century and looks at new critical developments* An updated Bibliography of critical sources and a revised Chronology The book opens with a Chronology and an Introduction to the principal texts and key critical terms, followed by five chapters: The Gothic Heyday 1760-1820; Gothic 1820-1865; Gothic Proximities 1865-1900; Twentieth Century; and Contemporary Gothic. The discussion examines how the Gothic has developed in different national contexts and in different forms, including novels, novellas, poems, films, radio and television. Each chapter concludes with a close reading of a specific text - Frankenstein, Jane Eyre, Dracula, The Silence of the Lambs and The Historian - to illustrate ways in which contextual discussion informs critical analysis. The book ends with a Conclusion outlining possible future developments within scholarship on the Gothic.
