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The History of Gothic Fiction (Paperback)
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The History of Gothic Fiction (Paperback)
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The History of Gothic Fiction debates the rise of the genre from
its origins in the late eighteenth-century novel through
nineteenth-century fictions of tyrants, monsters, conspirators and
vampires to the twentieth-century zombie film. Approaching key
novels by authors such as Walpole (The Castle of Otranto),
Radcliffe (The Romance of the Forest and The Mysteries of Udolpho),
Austen (Northanger Abbey), Wollstonecraft (The Wrongs of Woman),
Lewis (The Monk), Shelley (Frankenstein), Stoker (Dracula) and
Halperin (White Zombie), the argument proceeds on historicist
principles, analysing the peculiar tone of these fictions and
uncovering themes of credulity and reason, secrecy and
enlightenment, tyranny and libertinism, sexuality and gender, race
and miscegenation. The final chapters on the vampire and the zombie
examine how the un-dead of gothic terror are embedded in an
argument from history. Written with an undergraduate audience in
mind, this text offers a synthesis of the main topics of Gothic
interest and clearly argued summaries of critical debate. It
signals its difference from popular psychoanalytic readings of
Gothic and argues instead for a more complex, multilayered approach
via an historicist reading of Gothic fiction. Illustrated with ten
black and white plates and including up-to-date bibliographies,
this will be an ideal text for all those with an interest in the
Gothic. Key Features: * written with an undergraduate audience in
mind * covers topics such as vampires, zombies, tyrants, banditti
and demon-lovers * offers clearly argued summaries of critical
debate
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