This second volume of The Cambridge History of the Gothic provides a rigorous account of the Gothic in British, American and Continental European culture, from the Romantic period through to the Victorian fin de sičcle. Here, leading scholars in the fields of literature, theatre, architecture and the history of science and popular entertainment explore the Gothic in its numerous interdisciplinary forms and guises, as well as across a range of different international contexts. As much a cultural history of the Gothic in this period as an account of the ways in which the Gothic mode has participated in the formative historical events of modernity, the volume offers fresh perspectives on familiar themes while also drawing new critical attention to a range of hitherto overlooked concerns. From Romanticism, to Penny Bloods, Dickens and even the railway system, the volume provides a compelling and comprehensive study of nineteenth-century Gothic culture.
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' many readers of The Cambridge History of the Gothic will likely find themselves - and the Gothic - in a similarly transformed and renewed state.' Michael Gamer, Review 19 'One of the great strengths of Townshend and Wright's turn to mode instead of form is that they are able to develop a truly interdisciplinary collection of essays, putting literature, history, art, architecture, and drama into conversation with one another.' Joellen Mary Delucia, Eighteenth-Century Studies
Papildus informācija
This volume provides an interdisciplinary history of the Gothic in nineteenth-century British, American and European culture.
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Notes on Contributors |
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Acknowledgements |
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Introduction: Gothic in the Nineteenth Century, 1800-1900 |
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2.1 Gothic Romanticism and the Summer of 1816 |
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2.2 Fantasmagoriana: The Cosmopolitan Gothic and Frankenstein |
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Maximiliaan Van Woudenberg |
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2.3 The Mutation of the Vampire in Nineteenth-Century Gothic |
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2.4 From Romantic Gothic to Victorian Medievalism: 1817 and 1877 |
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2.5 Nineteenth-Century Gothic Architectural Aesthetics: A. W. N. Pugin, John Ruskin and William Morris |
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2.6 Gothic Fiction, from Shilling Shockers to Penny Bloods |
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2.7 The Theatrical Gothic in the Nineteenth Century |
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2.8 `spectrology': Gothic Showmanship in Nineteenth-Century Popular Shows and Media |
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2.9 The Gothic in Victorian Poetry |
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2.10 The Genesis of the Victorian Ghost Story |
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2.11 Charles Dickens and the Gothic |
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2.12 Victorian Domestic Gothic Fiction |
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2.13 The Gothic in Nineteenth-Century Spain |
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2.14 The Gothic in Nineteenth-Century Italy |
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2.15 The Gothic in Nineteenth-Century Scotland |
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2.16 The Gothic in Nineteenth-Century Ireland |
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2.17 The Gothic in Nineteenth-Century America |
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2.18 Nineteenth-Century British and American Gothic and the History of Slavery |
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2.19 Genealogies of Monstrosity: Darwin, the Biology of Crime and Nineteenth-Century British Gothic Literature |
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2.20 Gothic and the Coming of the Railways |
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2.21 Gothic Imperialism at the Fin de siecle |
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Select Bibliography |
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Index |
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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, 17601840 (2019). 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).