What do we mean by the term `Gothic'? How does it differ from such classifications as `terror' and `horror' and where do its parameters lie? In an attempt to define such an elusive term, this A-Z will unearth the terminologies associated with Gothic through a variety of short essays written by leading scholars. Not only will it plot the national characteristics of Gothic as in the French school of terror, Frenetique to American Gothic, but it will also span the period from Ann Radcliffe to Anne Rice. Recent scholarly developments like `Race and Gothic' will be explored as well as the burgeoning `Gothic Body'. The main authors who contributed most to the genre will be included along with entries like `Architecture' and `Film' which illustrate its inter-disciplinary nature. A helpful glossary will illuminate some of the more obscure and cryptic terms while a detailed reading list will help to ensure that this text remains an essential companion for students and general readers of Gothic literature.
'Not just another handbook, this volume will be of great benefit to those interested in literary Gothicism...Mulvey-Roberts deserves congratulations for magisterial editing...A must for all types of libraries.' - B.F. Fisher, Choice
'Not just another handbook, this volume will be of great benefit to those interested in literary Gothicism...The editor has distinguished herself as a leading specialist in Gothicism, and her own entries...are predictably first-rate. Her contributors evince like authority; the 'best' have been chosen to present their topics...A must for all types of libraries.' - B.B. Fisher, Choice
Introduction
Ainsworth, W.Harrison; R.A.Gilbert
American Gothic; A.L.Smith
Architecture see Gothic Revival
Beckford, William; M.Franklin
Bierce, Ambrose; A.L.Smith
Blackwood, Algernon; T.Willard
The Brontës; E.Imlay
Brown, Brockden; T.Lustig
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward; H.Small
Carter, Angela; E.Jordan
Contemporary Gothic; A.B.Tracy
Death; E.Bronfen
The Demonic; H.Stoddart
Dickens, Charles; B.F.Fisher
Doyle, Arthur Conan; C.Bloom
English-Canadian Gothic; G.Turcotte
Female Gothic; A.Milbank
Frenetique School; T.Hale
German Gothic; H.U.Mohr
Ghost Stories; R.A.Gilbert
Goethe, J.W.Von; E.H.Denton
Gothic Drama; J.Cox
Gothic Film; I.Conrich
Gothic Novel; V.Sage
Gothic Revival; V.Sage
Gothic Romance; A.B.Tracy
Graveyard School; S.Clark
Hawthorne, Nathaniel; R.Miles
Hero-Villain; H.Stoddart
Heroine; A.Horner
Hoffman, E.T.A.; H.U.Mohr
Hogg, James; D.Mack
Horror; F.Botting
Imagination; P.Martin
Irish Gothic; W.J.McCormack
Irving, Washington; A.L.Smith
Jacobs, W.W.; J.Cloy
James, Henry; T.Lustig
James, M.R.; W.Hughes
Le Fanu, J.Sheridan; W.J.McCormack
Lewis, Matthew; N.Trott
Lovecraft, H.P.; C.Bloom
Machen, Arthur; R.A.Gilbert
Madness; H.Small
Maturin, Charles; C.Malet-Dagreou
Melville, Herman; R.Lee
Monstrosity; F.Botting
New Gothic see Contemporary Gothic
Nightmare; P.Martin
Occultism; T.Willard
Orientalism; M.Franklin
Penny Dreadfuls; R.A.Gilbert
Poe, Edgar Allan; B.F.Fisher
Post-Colonial Gothic; K.Gelder
Radcliffe, Ann; R.Miles
Rice, Anne; M.Mulvey Roberts
Roman Noir; T.Hale
Romanticism; P.Martin
Russian Gothic; N.Cornwell
Sade, Marquis de; E.Clery
Sado-Masochism; E.Bronfen
San Francisco Gothic; W.Veeder
Scottish Gothic; D.Mack
Shelley, Mary; M.Mulvey Roberts
Shelley, P.B.; N.Trott
Southern Gothic; R.Lee
Stevenson, Robert Louis; J.E.Hogle
Stoker, Bram; W.Hughes
The Sublime; A.Milbank
The Supernatural; C.Bloom
Terror; D.Punter
The Uncanny see Unheimlich
Vampire; W.Hughes
Walpole, Horace; E.Clery
Wandering Jew; H.U.Mohr
Welsh Gothic; S.Erion
Werewolf see Lycanthropy
Wilde, Oscar; N.Sammells
Witches and Witchcraft; F.Ringel
Wizards; F.Ringel
Zerrissenheit; C.Houswitschka
MARIE MULVEY-ROBERTS is a Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies at the University of the West of England, Bristol where she teaches Gothic literature. The author of British Poets and Secret Societies and Gothic Immortals, she has co-edited Secret Texts: The Literature of Secret Societies and published many articles on Gothic literature. Currently she is co-editing Female Gothic Texts with Robert Miles who guest edited 'Female Gothic Writing' which was a special issue of Women's Writing: The Elizabethan to the Victorian Period that she edits with Janet Todd.
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What do we mean by the term `Gothic'? How does it differ from such classifications as `terror' and `horror' and where do its parameters lie? In an attempt to define such an elusive term, this A-Z will unearth the terminologies associated with Gothic through a variety of short essays written by leading scholars. Not only will it plot the national characteristics of Gothic as in the French school of terror, Frenetique to American Gothic, but it will also span the period from Ann Radcliffe to Anne Rice. Recent scholarly developments like `Race and Gothic' will be explored as well as the burgeoning `Gothic Body'. The main authors who contributed most to the genre will be included along with entries like `Architecture' and `Film' which illustrate its inter-disciplinary nature. A helpful glossary will illuminate some of the more obscure and cryptic terms while a detailed reading list will help to ensure that this text remains an essential companion for students and general readers of Gothic literature.
Reviews
'Not just another handbook, this volume will be of great benefit to those interested in literary Gothicism...Mulvey-Roberts deserves congratulations for magisterial editing...A must for all types of libraries.' - B.F. Fisher, Choice
'Not just another handbook, this volume will be of great benefit to those interested in literary Gothicism...The editor has distinguished herself as a leading specialist in Gothicism, and her own entries...are predictably first-rate. Her contributors evince like authority; the 'best' have been chosen to present their topics...A must for all types of libraries.' - B.B. Fisher, Choice
Contents
Introduction
Ainsworth, W.Harrison; R.A.Gilbert
American Gothic; A.L.Smith
Architecture see Gothic Revival
Beckford, William; M.Franklin
Bierce, Ambrose; A.L.Smith
Blackwood, Algernon; T.Willard
The Brontës; E.Imlay
Brown, Brockden; T.Lustig
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward; H.Small
Carter, Angela; E.Jordan
Contemporary Gothic; A.B.Tracy
Death; E.Bronfen
The Demonic; H.Stoddart
Dickens, Charles; B.F.Fisher
Doyle, Arthur Conan; C.Bloom
English-Canadian Gothic; G.Turcotte
Female Gothic; A.Milbank
Frenetique School; T.Hale
German Gothic; H.U.Mohr
Ghost Stories; R.A.Gilbert
Goethe, J.W.Von; E.H.Denton
Gothic Drama; J.Cox
Gothic Film; I.Conrich
Gothic Novel; V.Sage
Gothic Revival; V.Sage
Gothic Romance; A.B.Tracy
Graveyard School; S.Clark
Hawthorne, Nathaniel; R.Miles
Hero-Villain; H.Stoddart
Heroine; A.Horner
Hoffman, E.T.A.; H.U.Mohr
Hogg, James; D.Mack
Horror; F.Botting
Imagination; P.Martin
Irish Gothic; W.J.McCormack
Irving, Washington; A.L.Smith
Jacobs, W.W.; J.Cloy
James, Henry; T.Lustig
James, M.R.; W.Hughes
Le Fanu, J.Sheridan; W.J.McCormack
Lewis, Matthew; N.Trott
Lovecraft, H.P.; C.Bloom
Machen, Arthur; R.A.Gilbert
Madness; H.Small
Maturin, Charles; C.Malet-Dagreou
Melville, Herman; R.Lee
Monstrosity; F.Botting
New Gothic see Contemporary Gothic
Nightmare; P.Martin
Occultism; T.Willard
Orientalism; M.Franklin
Penny Dreadfuls; R.A.Gilbert
Poe, Edgar Allan; B.F.Fisher
Post-Colonial Gothic; K.Gelder
Radcliffe, Ann; R.Miles
Rice, Anne; M.Mulvey Roberts
Roman Noir; T.Hale
Romanticism; P.Martin
Russian Gothic; N.Cornwell
Sade, Marquis de; E.Clery
Sado-Masochism; E.Bronfen
San Francisco Gothic; W.Veeder
Scottish Gothic; D.Mack
Shelley, Mary; M.Mulvey Roberts
Shelley, P.B.; N.Trott
Southern Gothic; R.Lee
Stevenson, Robert Louis; J.E.Hogle
Stoker, Bram; W.Hughes
The Sublime; A.Milbank
The Supernatural; C.Bloom
Terror; D.Punter
The Uncanny see Unheimlich
Vampire; W.Hughes
Walpole, Horace; E.Clery
Wandering Jew; H.U.Mohr
Welsh Gothic; S.Erion
Werewolf see Lycanthropy
Wilde, Oscar; N.Sammells
Witches and Witchcraft; F.Ringel
Wizards; F.Ringel
Zerrissenheit; C.Houswitschka
Authors
MARIE MULVEY-ROBERTS is a Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies at the University of the West of England, Bristol where she teaches Gothic literature. The author of British Poets and Secret Societies and Gothic Immortals, she has co-edited Secret Texts: The Literature of Secret Societies and published many articles on Gothic literature. Currently she is co-editing Female Gothic Texts with Robert Miles who guest edited 'Female Gothic Writing' which was a special issue of Women's Writing: The Elizabethan to the Victorian Period that she edits with Janet Todd.
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