Offering a variety of critical approaches to late eighteenth- and
nineteenth-century Gothic literature, this collection provides a
transnational view of the emergence and flowering of the Gothic.
The essays expand on now well-known approaches to the Gothic (such
as those that concentrate exclusively on race, gender, or nation)
by focusing on international issues: religious traditions, social
reform, economic and financial pitfalls, manifest destiny and
expansion, changing concepts of nationhood, and destabilizing
moments of empire-building. By examining a wide array of Gothic
texts, including novels, drama, and poetry, the contributors
present the Gothic not as a peripheral, marginal genre, but as a
central mode of literary exchange in an ever-expanding global
context. Thus the traditional conventions of the Gothic, such as
those associated with Ann Radcliffe and Monk Lewis, are read
alongside unexpected Gothic formulations and lesser-known Gothic
authors and texts. These include Mary Rowlandson and Bram Stoker,
Frances and Anthony Trollope, Louisa May Alcott, Elizabeth Gaskell,
Theodore Dreiser, Rudyard Kipling, and Lafcadio Hearn, as well as
the actors Edmund Kean and George Frederick Cooke. Individually and
collectively, the essays provide a much-needed perspective that
eschews national borders in order to explore the central role that
global (and particularly transatlantic) exchange played in the
development of the Gothic. British, American, Continental,
Caribbean, and Asian Gothic are represented in this collection,
which seeks to deepen our understanding of the Gothic as not merely
a national but a global aesthetic.
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