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The Cambridge History of the Gothic

The Cambridge History of the Gothic
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Dale Townshend, Angela Wright, Catherine Spooner, David M. Gwynn, Nick Groom, Peter N. Lindfield, Stephen Clarke, Anne Williams, James Uden, Ruth Scobie, Paula R. Backscheider, Deborah Russell, James Watt, Fanny Lacôte, Eric Parisot, Yael Shapira, Diego Saglia, Barry Murnane, Jolene Zigarovich, Martin Myrone, Robert Miles, Madeleine Callaghan, Maximiliaan van Woudenberg, Jerrold E. Hogle, Tom Duggett, Alexandra Warwick, Anthony Mandal, Kelly Jones, Joe Kember, Serena Trowbridge, Scott Brewster, John Bowen, Tamar Heller, Xavier Aldana Reyes, Rocío Rødtjer, Francesca Saggini, Suzanne Gilbert, Christina Morin, Charles L. Crow, Maisha Wester, Corinna Wagner, William Hughes, Andrew Smith, Stacey Abbott, Simon Brown, Matt Foley, Arthur Redding, Mark Jancovich, Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet, Tabish Khair, Emma McEvoy, David Punter, Bernice M. Murphy, Derek Johnston, Lucie Armitt, Ardel Haefele-Thomas, Linnie Blake, Megen de Bruin-Molé, Marc Olivier, Sarah Ilott, Johan Höglund, Tuğçe Bıçakçı Syed, Daniel Martin, Yvonne Leffler, Sara L. Crosby, Simon Marsden
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  • Date Published: October 2021
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  • isbn: 9781108662017

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  • How to write the history of a cultural mode that, for all its abiding fascination with the past, has challenged and complicated received notions of history from the very start? The Cambridge History of the Gothic rises to this challenge, charting the history of the Gothic even as it reflects continuously upon the mode's tendency to question, subvert and render incomplete all linear historical narratives. Taken together, the three chronologically sequenced volumes in the series provide a rigorous account of the origins, efflorescence and proliferation of the Gothic imagination, from its earliest manifestations in European history through to the present day. Written by an international cast of contributors, the chapters bring fresh scholarly attention to bear upon established Gothic themes while also drawing attention to new critical concerns. As such, they are of relevance to the general reader, the student and the established scholar alike.

    • Provides a thorough and comprehensive historical overview of the Gothic, from antiquity to the present day, exploring new areas of criticism
    • Explores the Gothic in a range of different interdisciplinary contexts, tracking its imbrication in literature, architecture, fine art, politics, film, television and digital culture
    • Shows the extent to which Gothic both responds to, and is an active participant in, some of the most important historical events in Western civilisation
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    • Date Published: October 2021
    • format: Multiple copy pack
    • isbn: 9781108662017
    • length: 1800 pages
    • dimensions: 247 x 234 x 106 mm
    • weight: 3.18kg
    • availability: In stock
  • Table of Contents

    Volume 1. Gothic in the Long Eighteenth Century: Introduction: the gothic in/and history
    1. The Goths in ancient history
    2. The term 'gothic' in the Long Eighteenth Century, 1680‒1800
    3. The literary gothic before Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto
    4. Gothic revival architecture before Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill
    5. Horace Walpole and the gothic
    6. Shakespeare's gothic transmigrations
    7. Reassessing the gothic / classical relationship
    8. 'A world of bad spirits': the terrors of eighteenth-century empire
    9. In their blood: the eighteenth-century gothic stage
    10. Domestic gothic writing after Horace Walpole and before Ann Radcliffe
    11. Early British gothic and the American Revolution
    12. Gothic and the French Revolution, 1789–1804
    13. The aesthetics of terror and horror: a genealogy
    14. Ann Radcliffe and Matthew Lewis
    15. The gothic novel beyond Radcliffe and Lewis
    16. Oriental gothic: imperial-commercial nightmares from the eighteenth century to the Romantic period
    17. The German 'school' of horrors: a pharmacology of the gothic
    18. Gothic and the history of sexuality
    19. Gothic art and gothic culture in the Romantic era
    20. Time in the gothic
    Volume 2. Gothic in the Nineteenth Century
    Introduction
    1. Gothic romanticism and the summer of 1816
    2. Fantasmagoriana: The cosmopolitan gothic and Frankenstein
    3. The mutation of the vampire in nineteenth-century gothic
    4. From romantic gothic to Victorian medievalism:
    1817 and 1877
    5. Nineteenth-century gothic architectural aesthetics: A. W. N. Pugin, John Ruskin and William Morris
    6. Gothic fiction, from shilling shockers to penny bloods
    7. The theatrical gothic in the nineteenth century
    8. 'Specterology': gothic showmanship in nineteenth-century popular shows and media
    9. The gothic in Victorian poetry
    10. The genesis of the Victorian ghost story
    11. Charles dickens and the gothic
    12. Victorian domestic gothic fiction
    13. The gothic in nineteenth-century Spain
    14. The gothic in nineteenth-century Italy
    15. The gothic in nineteenth-century Scotland
    16. The gothic in nineteenth-century Ireland
    17. The gothic in nineteenth-century America
    18. Nineteenth-century British and American gothic and the history of slavery
    19. Genealogies of monstrosity: Darwin, the biology of crime and nineteenth-century British gothic literature
    20. Gothic and the coming of the railways
    21. Gothic imperialism at the fin de siècle
    Volume 3. Gothic in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
    Introduction: A history of gothic studies in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
    1. Gothic and silent cinema
    2. Gothic, the great war and the rise of modernism, 1910‒1936
    3. Gothic and the American south, 1919‒1962
    4. Hollywood gothic, 1930–1960
    5. Gothic and war, 1930–91
    6. Gothic and the postcolonial moment
    7. Gothic and the heritage movement in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
    8. Gothic enchantment: The magical strain in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Anglo-American gothic
    9. Psychoanalysis and the American popular gothic, 1954–1980
    10. Gothic and the counterculture, 1958‒Present
    11. Gothic television
    12. Gothic and the rise of feminism
    13. Gothic, AIDS and sexuality, 1981–present
    14. The gothic in the age of neo-liberalism, 1990‒present
    15. The gothic and remix culture
    16. Postdigital gothic
    17. Gothic multiculturalism
    18. Gothic, neo-imperialism and the war on terror
    19. Global gothic 1: Islamic gothic
    20. Global gothic 2: East Asian gothic
    21. Global gothic 3: Gothic in modern Scandinavia
    22. The 'Bad Oikos': Gothic in an age of environmental crisis
    23. Gothic and the apocalyptic imagination.

  • Editors

    Angela Wright, University of Sheffield
    Angela Wright is Professor of Romantic Literature at the University of Sheffield, and a former co-President of the International Gothic Association (IGA). Her books include Britain, France and the Gothic: The Import of Terror, 1764-1820 (Cambridge University Press, 2013), Mary Shelley (University of Wales Press, 2018), and the co-edited volumes Ann Radcliffe, Romanticism and the Gothic (2014, with Dale Townshend) and Romantic Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion (2015, with Dale Townshend).

    Dale Townshend, Manchester Metropolitan University
    Dale Townshend is Professor of Gothic Literature in the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies, Manchester Metropolitan University. He has published widely on Gothic writing of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. His most recent monograph is Gothic Antiquity: History, Romance, and the Architectural Imagination, 1760–1840 (2019).

    Catherine Spooner, Lancaster University
    Catherine Spooner is Professor of Literature and Culture at Lancaster University. She has previously published six books; the most recent, Post-Millennial Gothic: Comedy, Romance and the Rise of Happy Gothic (2017), was awarded the Allan Lloyd Smith Memorial Prize. She was co-president of the International Gothic Association 2013–17.

    Contributors

    Dale Townshend, Angela Wright, Catherine Spooner, David M. Gwynn, Nick Groom, Peter N. Lindfield, Stephen Clarke, Anne Williams, James Uden, Ruth Scobie, Paula R. Backscheider, Deborah Russell, James Watt, Fanny Lacôte, Eric Parisot, Yael Shapira, Diego Saglia, Barry Murnane, Jolene Zigarovich, Martin Myrone, Robert Miles, Madeleine Callaghan, Maximiliaan van Woudenberg, Jerrold E. Hogle, Tom Duggett, Alexandra Warwick, Anthony Mandal, Kelly Jones, Joe Kember, Serena Trowbridge, Scott Brewster, John Bowen, Tamar Heller, Xavier Aldana Reyes, Rocío Rødtjer, Francesca Saggini, Suzanne Gilbert, Christina Morin, Charles L. Crow, Maisha Wester, Corinna Wagner, William Hughes, Andrew Smith, Stacey Abbott, Simon Brown, Matt Foley, Arthur Redding, Mark Jancovich, Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet, Tabish Khair, Emma McEvoy, David Punter, Bernice M. Murphy, Derek Johnston, Lucie Armitt, Ardel Haefele-Thomas, Linnie Blake, Megen de Bruin-Molé, Marc Olivier, Sarah Ilott, Johan Höglund, Tuğçe Bıçakçı Syed, Daniel Martin, Yvonne Leffler, Sara L. Crosby, Simon Marsden

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