Gothic Readings: The First Wave, 1764-1840 is an anthology of
Gothic literature, set within the context of contemporary criticism
and readers' responses. It includes selections from the major
practitioners - indcluding Horace Walpole, William Beckford, Ann
Radcliffe, Matthew Gregory Lewis, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William
Godwin, Mary Shelley, Charles Robert Maturin and Edgar Allan Poe -
and many of their followers, as well as contemporary reviews,
private letters and diaries, chapbooks, and anecdotes about
dramatic performaces and the design of theatre sets. The volume
provides representative samples of the major genres: historical
Gothic, the Radcliffe school of terror, the Lewis school of horror,
tragic melodrama, comic parody, supernatural poetry and ballads,
book reviews and literary criticism and anti-Gothic polemic. Also
covered are the major Gothic issues such as the aesthetics of the
sublime, religionn and the supernatural and the influence of
ancient Romance, 'hobgoblin machinery' (including vampires,
spectres, orphans, the Inquisition, banditti, nuns, storms and
ruined castles), and social and political themes.A general
introduction reviews the major approaches to Gothic literature, and
short introductions place individual selections in context. All the
texts are based on first editions. The collection is suitable as a
textbook for courses on the Gothic novel or on Romantic literature
and will appeal to all Gothic enthusiasts. Rictor Norton is the
author of Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe.
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