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The Christmas Gothic (with thanks to author Marina Favila for the
suggestion) is a seasonal celebration of the dark and moody, the
ghastly, the ghostly and the magical Christmas short story. New
stories from open submissions join the classic tales of Algernon
Blackwood, James Joyce, E.F. Benson, Elizabeth Gaskell and more.
Flame Tree Gothic Fantasy, Classic Stories and Epic Tales
collections bring together the entire range of myth, folklore and
modern short fiction. Highlighting the roots of suspense,
supernatural, science fiction and mystery stories, the books in
Flame Tree Collections series are beautifully presented, perfect as
a gift and offer a lifetime of reading pleasure.
Provides a scholarly account of the striking interplay between the
Gothic and theory over two-and-a-half centuries This collection
provides a thorough representation of the early and ongoing
conversation between Gothic and theory - philosophical, aesthetic,
psychological and cultural - both in the many modes of Gothic and
in many of the realms of theory now current in the modern world.
Each essay focuses on a particular kind of theory-Gothic
relationship, every one of which has a history and each of which is
still being explored in enactments of the Gothic and of theory
today. Key Features Provides the first detailed discussion of the
interrelationship between literary theory and the Gothic from the
inception of the Gothic to the present day Enables students to
connect what otherwise seem a wide variety of diverse phenomena,
from the rise of philosophical 'emotivism' to poetic tales of
terror and Gothic film Advances current scholarly investigation, by
invigorating debates within both Gothic studies and literary
theory. Makes connections between a wide variety of issues, from
eco-crisis and contemporary culture wars to the persistent problem
of the 'other'
Celebrated as an actress on the London stage (1776–80) and
notorious as the mistress of the Prince of Wales (1779–80), Mary
Darby Robinson had to write to support herself from the mid–1780s
until her death in 1800. She mastered a wide range of styles,
published prolifically, and became the poetry editor of the Morning
Post. As her writing developed across the 1790s, she increasingly
used the motifs of Gothic fiction and drama descended from Horace
Walpole's Castle of Otranto (1764). These came to pervade her late
novels and poems so much that she even wrote her autobiography as a
Gothic romance. She also deployed them to critique the ideologies
of male dominance and the forms of writing in which they appeared.
This progression culminated in her final collection of verses,
Lyrical Tales (1800), where she Gothically exposes the conflicted
underpinnings in the now-famous Lyrical Ballads (1798) by
Wordsworth and Coleridge.
Provides a scholarly account of the striking interplay between the
Gothic and theory over two-and-a-half centuries This collection
provides a thorough representation of the early and ongoing
conversation between Gothic and theory - philosophical, aesthetic,
psychological and cultural - both in the many modes of Gothic and
in many of the realms of theory now current in the modern world.
Each essay focuses on a particular kind of theory-Gothic
relationship, every one of which has a history and each of which is
still being explored in enactments of the Gothic and of theory
today. Key Features Provides the first detailed discussion of the
interrelationship between literary theory and the Gothic from the
inception of the Gothic to the present day Enables students to
connect what otherwise seem a wide variety of diverse phenomena,
from the rise of philosophical 'emotivism' to poetic tales of
terror and Gothic film Advances current scholarly investigation, by
invigorating debates within both Gothic studies and literary
theory. Makes connections between a wide variety of issues, from
eco-crisis and contemporary culture wars to the persistent problem
of the 'other'
This Companion explores the many ways in which the Gothic has
dispersed in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and in
particular how it has come to offer a focus for the tensions
inherent in modernity. Fourteen essays by world-class experts show
how the Gothic in numerous forms - including literature, film,
television, and cyberspace - helps audiences both to distance
themselves from and to deal with some of the key underlying
problems of modern life. Topics discussed include the norms and
shifting boundaries of sex and gender, the explosion of different
forms of media and technology, the mixture of cultures across the
western world, the problem of identity for the modern individual,
what people continue to see as evil, and the very nature of
modernity. Also including a chronology and guide to further
reading, this volume offers a comprehensive account of the
importance of Gothic to modern life and thought.
This Companion explores the many ways in which the Gothic has
dispersed in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and in
particular how it has come to offer a focus for the tensions
inherent in modernity. Fourteen essays by world-class experts show
how the Gothic in numerous forms - including literature, film,
television, and cyberspace - helps audiences both to distance
themselves from and to deal with some of the key underlying
problems of modern life. Topics discussed include the norms and
shifting boundaries of sex and gender, the explosion of different
forms of media and technology, the mixture of cultures across the
western world, the problem of identity for the modern individual,
what people continue to see as evil, and the very nature of
modernity. Also including a chronology and guide to further
reading, this volume offers a comprehensive account of the
importance of Gothic to modern life and thought.
Fourteen world-class experts on the Gothic provide thorough accounts of this haunting-to-horrifying genre from the 1760s to the end of the twentieth century. Essays explore the connections of Gothic fictions to political and industrial revolutions, the realistic novel, the theater, Romantic and post-Romantic poetry, nationalism and racism from Europe to America, colonized and post-colonial populations, the rise of film, the struggles between "high" and "popular" culture, and changing attitudes towards human identity, life and death, sanity and madness. The volume also includes a chronology and guides to further reading.
Fourteen world-class experts on the Gothic provide thorough accounts of this haunting-to-horrifying genre from the 1760s to the end of the twentieth century. Essays explore the connections of Gothic fictions to political and industrial revolutions, the realistic novel, the theater, Romantic and post-Romantic poetry, nationalism and racism from Europe to America, colonized and post-colonial populations, the rise of film, the struggles between "high" and "popular" culture, and changing attitudes towards human identity, life and death, sanity and madness. The volume also includes a chronology and guides to further reading.
In this set of thorough and revisionary readings of Percy Bysshe
Shelley's best-known writings in verse and prose, Hogle argues that
the logic and style in all these works are governed by a movement
in every thought, memory, image, or word-pattern whereby each is
seen and sees itself in terms of a radically different form. For
any specified entity or figure to be known for "what it is," it
must be reconfigured by and in terms of another one at another
level (which must then be dislocated itself). In so delineating
Shelley's "process," Hogle reveals the revisionary procedure in the
poet's various texts and demonstrates the powerful effects of
"radical transference" in Shelley's visions of human possibility.
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