The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction by Jerrold E Hogle

The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction by Jerrold E Hogle

Gothic as a form of fiction-making has played a major role in Western culture since the late eighteenth century. In this volume, fourteen world-class experts on the Gothic provide thorough and revealing accounts of this haunting-to-horrifying type of fiction from the 1760s (the decade of The Castle of Otranto, the first so-called 'Gothic story') to the end of the twentieth century (an era haunted by filmed and computerized Gothic simulations). Along the way, these essays explore the connections of Gothic fictions to political and industrial revolutions, the realistic novel, the theatre, Romantic and post-Romantic poetry, nationalism and racism from Europe to America, colonized and post-colonial populations, the rise of film and other visual technologies, the struggles between 'high' and 'popular' culture, changing psychological attitudes towards human identity, gender and sexuality, and the obscure lines between life and death, sanity and madness. The volume also includes a chronology and guides to further reading.

'… if you want to brush up on your origins and expand your literary knowledge or just want something new to think about [this is] a good place to start' Bite Me

Jerrold E. Hogle is Professor of English and University Distinguished Professor at the University of Arizona. He has published widely in Romantic literature, cultural theory, and the Gothic.

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ISBN 13	9780521794664
ISBN 10	0521794668
Titel	The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction
Autor	Jerrold E Hogle
Serie	Cambridge Companions To Literature
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Cambridge University Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2002-08-29
Seitenanzahl	354
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