The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction

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.

Author: Jerrold E. Hogle
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 09/16/2002
Pages: 354
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9780521794664
ISBN10: 0521794668
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Literary Criticism | American | General
- Literary Criticism | Gothic & Romance