Volume two continues the survey through the gothic writing of the twentienth century, it includes a new chapter on film and post-war fiction, and a detailed examination of the development of a 'culture of horror'.
Volume two continues the survey through the gothic writing of the twentienth century, it includes a new chapter on film and post-war fiction, and a detailed examination of the development of a 'culture of horror'.
David Punter is Professor of English at the University of Bristol, UK.
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Preface to the first edition Preface to the second edition Acknowledgements 1. Gothic and decadence: Robert Louis Stevenson Oscar Wilde H. G. Wells Bram Stoker Arthur Machen 2. Later American Gothic: Ambrose Bierce Robert W. Chambers H. P. Lovecraft 3. The ambivalence of memory: Henry James and Walter de la Mare 4. Formalism and meaning in the ghost story: Arthur Conan Doyle H. G. Wells Algernon Blackwood M. R. James David Lindsay 5. Gothic in the horror film 1930-1980 6. Modern perspectives of the barbaric: Mervyn Peake 'Isak Dinesen' John Hawkes Joyce Carol Oates James Purdy William Burroughs Thomas Pynchon J. G. Ballard Robert Coover Angela Carter 7. Contemporary Gothic transformations 8. Mutations of terror: theory and Gothic Bibliography Index
Preface to first edition Preface to second edition Acknowledgements 1. Introductory: dimensions of Gothic 2. The origins of Gothic fiction. Sentimentalism, Graveyard Poetry, The Sublime, Smollett, Horace Walpole, Clara Reeve, Sophia Lee 3. The classic Gothic novels. Ann Radcliffe and Matthew Lewis 4. Gothic and romanticism. Blake, Coleridge, Shelley, Byron, Keats, John Polidori, Mary Shelley 5. The dialectic of persecution. William Godwin, C.R. Maturin, James Hogg 6. Gothic, history and the middle classes. Scott, Bulwer Lytton, G.P.R. James, William Harrison Ainsworth, G.W.M Reynolds 7. Early American Gothic. Charles Brockden. Brown. Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe 8. Gothic and the sensation novel. Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Sheridan LeFanu Appendix on Criticism Bibliography Index
Preface to the first edition Preface to the second edition Acknowledgements 1. Gothic and decadence: Robert Louis Stevenson Oscar Wilde H. G. Wells Bram Stoker Arthur Machen 2. Later American Gothic: Ambrose Bierce Robert W. Chambers H. P. Lovecraft 3. The ambivalence of memory: Henry James and Walter de la Mare 4. Formalism and meaning in the ghost story: Arthur Conan Doyle H. G. Wells Algernon Blackwood M. R. James David Lindsay 5. Gothic in the horror film 1930-1980 6. Modern perspectives of the barbaric: Mervyn Peake 'Isak Dinesen' John Hawkes Joyce Carol Oates James Purdy William Burroughs Thomas Pynchon J. G. Ballard Robert Coover Angela Carter 7. Contemporary Gothic transformations 8. Mutations of terror: theory and Gothic Bibliography Index
Preface to first edition Preface to second edition Acknowledgements 1. Introductory: dimensions of Gothic 2. The origins of Gothic fiction. Sentimentalism, Graveyard Poetry, The Sublime, Smollett, Horace Walpole, Clara Reeve, Sophia Lee 3. The classic Gothic novels. Ann Radcliffe and Matthew Lewis 4. Gothic and romanticism. Blake, Coleridge, Shelley, Byron, Keats, John Polidori, Mary Shelley 5. The dialectic of persecution. William Godwin, C.R. Maturin, James Hogg 6. Gothic, history and the middle classes. Scott, Bulwer Lytton, G.P.R. James, William Harrison Ainsworth, G.W.M Reynolds 7. Early American Gothic. Charles Brockden. Brown. Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe 8. Gothic and the sensation novel. Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Sheridan LeFanu Appendix on Criticism Bibliography Index
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