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A deluxe edition of original and classic short stories, packed with
monsters, vampires and a host of weird creatures. Tales of shadows
and voices in the dark from the likes of H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar
Allan Poe, Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Nathaniel Hawthorne and
William Hope Hodgson are cast with previously unpublished stories
by some of the best writers of horror today. A dazzling collection
of the most gripping tales of horror, vividly told.
The Gothic World offers an extensive overview of the popular field
of the Gothic, from the eighteenth century through to the present
day. Encompassing the literary, it also extends critical debate in
exciting new directions, including film, politics, fashion,
architecture, fine art, music, technology and cyberculture.
Structured around the principles of time, space and practice, and
including a detailed general introduction, the five sections of the
volume consider: Gothic histories Gothic spaces Gothic readers and
writers Gothic spectacle Contemporary impulses. The Gothic World
seeks to account for the Gothic as a multi-faceted,
multi-dimensional force, as a style, an aesthetic experience and a
mode of cultural expression that traverses genres, forms, media,
disciplines and national boundaries: a "Gothic World," indeed.
A deluxe edition with a chilling selection of original and classic
short stories. The new tales, many of them published here for the
first time, are written by today's top authors, and they bring a
modern twist to the outstanding mix of intrigue that lurks in the
furtive imagination of E.F. Benson, Henry James, Wilkie Collins,
Washington Irving , Edith Wharton, Oscar Wilde, and so many more
within this outstanding collection.
Readings of Shakespeare were both influenced by and influential in
the rise of Gothic forms in literature and culture from the late
eighteenth century onwards. Shakespeare's plays are full of ghosts,
suspense, fear-inducing moments and cultural anxieties which many
writers in the Gothic mode have since emulated, adapted and
appropriated. The contributors to this volume consider:
Shakespeare's relationship with popular Gothic fiction of the
eighteenth century how, without Shakespeare as a point of
reference, the Gothic mode in fiction and drama may not have
developed and evolved in quite the way it did the ways in which the
Gothic engages in a complex dialogue with Shakespeare, often
through the use of quotation, citation and analogy the extent to
which the relationship between Shakespeare and the Gothic requires
a radical reappraisal in the light of contemporary literary theory,
as well as the popular extensions of the Gothic into many modern
modes of representation. In Gothic Shakespeares, Shakespeare is
considered alongside major Gothic texts and writers - from Horace
Walpole, Ann Radcliffe, Matthew Lewis and Mary Shelley, up to and
including contemporary Gothic fiction and horror film. This volume
offers a highly original and truly provocative account of Gothic
reformulations of Shakespeare, and Shakespeare's significance to
the Gothic. Contributors include: Fred Botting, Elizabeth Bronfen,
Glennis Byron, Sue Chaplin, Steven Craig, John Drakakis, Michael
Gamer, Jerrold Hogle, Peter Hutchings, Robert Miles, Dale
Townshend, Scott Wilson and Angela Wright.
Readings of Shakespeare were both influenced by and influential in
the rise of Gothic forms in literature and culture from the late
eighteenth century onwards. Shakespeare's plays are full of ghosts,
suspense, fear-inducing moments and cultural anxieties which many
writers in the Gothic mode have since emulated, adapted and
appropriated. The contributors to this volume consider:
Shakespeare's relationship with popular Gothic fiction of the
eighteenth century how, without Shakespeare as a point of
reference, the Gothic mode in fiction and drama may not have
developed and evolved in quite the way it did the ways in which the
Gothic engages in a complex dialogue with Shakespeare, often
through the use of quotation, citation and analogy the extent to
which the relationship between Shakespeare and the Gothic requires
a radical reappraisal in the light of contemporary literary theory,
as well as the popular extensions of the Gothic into many modern
modes of representation. In Gothic Shakespeares, Shakespeare is
considered alongside major Gothic texts and writers - from Horace
Walpole, Ann Radcliffe, Matthew Lewis and Mary Shelley, up to and
including contemporary Gothic fiction and horror film. This volume
offers a highly original and truly provocative account of Gothic
reformulations of Shakespeare, and Shakespeare's significance to
the Gothic. Contributors include: Fred Botting, Elizabeth Bronfen,
Glennis Byron, Sue Chaplin, Steven Craig, John Drakakis, Michael
Gamer, Jerrold Hogle, Peter Hutchings, Robert Miles, Dale
Townshend, Scott Wilson and Angela Wright.
The Gothic World offers an overview of this popular field whilst
also extending critical debate in exciting new directions such as
film, politics, fashion, architecture, fine art and cyberculture.
Structured around the principles of time, space and practice, and
including a detailed general introduction, the five sections look
at: Gothic Histories Gothic Spaces Gothic Readers and Writers
Gothic Spectacle Contemporary Impulses. The Gothic World seeks to
account for the Gothic as a multi-faceted, multi-dimensional force,
as a style, an aesthetic experience and a mode of cultural
expression that traverses genres, forms, media, disciplines and
national boundaries and creates, indeed, its own 'World'.
ARDEN RENAISSANCE DRAMA GUIDES offer students and academics
practical and accessible introductions to the critical and
performance contexts of key Elizabethan and Jacobean plays. Essays
from leading international scholars provide invaluable insights
into the text by presenting a range of critical perspectives,
making the books ideal companions for study and research. Key
features include: Essays on the play's critical and performance
history A keynote essay on current research and thinking about the
play A selection of new essays by leading scholars A survey of
resources to direct students' further reading about the play in
print and online Regularly performed and studied, Macbeth is not
only one of Shakespeare's most popular plays but also provides us
with one of the literary canon's most compellingly conflicted
tragic figures. This guide offers fresh new ways into the play.
ARDEN RENAISSANCE DRAMA GUIDES offer students and academics
practical and accessible introductions to the critical and
performance contexts of key Elizabethan and Jacobean plays. Essays
from leading international scholars provide invaluable insights
into the text by presenting a range of critical perspectives,
making the books ideal companions for study and research. Key
features include: Essays on the play's critical and performance
history A keynote essay on current research and thinking about the
play A selection of new essays by leading scholars A survey of
resources to direct students' further reading about the play in
print and online Regularly performed and studied, Macbeth is not
only one of Shakespeare's most popular plays but also provides us
with one of the literary canon's most compellingly conflicted
tragic figures. This guide offers fresh new ways into the play.
This book offers unique and fresh perspectives upon the literary
productions of one of the most highly remunerated and widely
admired authors of the Romantic period, Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823).
While drawing upon, consolidating and enriching the critical
impulses reflected in Radcliffe scholarship to date, this
collection of essays, composed by a range of renowned scholars of
the Romantic period, also foregrounds the hitherto neglected
aspects of the author's work. Radcliffe's relations to Romantic-era
travel writing; the complex political ideologies that lie behind
her historiographic endeavours; her poetry and its relation to
institutionalised forms of Romanticism; and her literary
connections to eighteenth-century women's writing are all examined
in this collection. Offering fresh considerations of the well-known
Gothic fictions and extending the appreciation of Radcliffe in new
critical directions, the collection reappraises Radcliffe's full
oeuvre within the wider literary and political contexts of her
time.
Romantic Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion provides a thorough
critical, textual and historical account of the Gothic aesthetic as
manifested across a wide-range of Romantic-era literary texts, from
the adumbrations of the Gothic mode in the proto-Romantic poetry of
the 1740s, through to the 'belated' Gothic fictions of the late
1820s. Self-consciously breaching, like Hume and Gamer before it,
the critical divide between what literary history has subsequently
differentiated as the 'Gothic' and the 'Romantic: this collection
of 17 newly commissioned chapters seeks to draw attention to what
G. R. Thompson in 1947 termed 'dark Romanticism: that is, that
prominent strain in late 18th and early 19th-century British,
American and European literature in which the distinction between
the popular, low-cultural reaches of the Gothic and the 'High'
Romantic aesthetics of more canonical figures is all but erased.
This book offers unique and fresh perspectives upon the literary
productions of one of the most highly remunerated and widely
admired authors of the Romantic period, Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823).
While drawing upon, consolidating and enriching the critical
impulses reflected in Radcliffe scholarship to date, this
collection of essays, composed by a range of renowned scholars of
the Romantic period, also foregrounds the hitherto neglected
aspects of the author's work. Radcliffe's relations to Romantic-era
travel writing; the complex political ideologies that lie behind
her historiographic endeavours; her poetry and its relation to
institutionalised forms of Romanticism; and her literary
connections to eighteenth-century women's writing are all examined
in this collection. Offering fresh considerations of the well-known
Gothic fictions and extending the appreciation of Radcliffe in new
critical directions, the collection reappraises Radcliffe's full
oeuvre within the wider literary and political contexts of her
time.
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