David Punter

The Literature of Terror: Volume 2 (eBook, PDF)

The Modern Gothic

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The Literature of Terror: the Modern Gothic is the second volume in David Punter's impressive survey of gothic writing covering over two centuries. This long awaited second edition has been expanded to take into account the latest critical research, and is now published in two volumes. Volume One covers the period from 1765 to the Edwardian age while Volume Two discusses modern gothic, starting with the 'decadent' gothic writing of Oscar Wilde and continuing through the twentieth century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317888024
• Artikelnr.: 40344860

Autorenporträt

David Punter is Professor of English at the University of Bristol, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

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

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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