Gothic Fiction by Angela Wright
Angela Wright assembles some of the most important critical writings about Romantic Gothic literature since its inception to the present day. This guide begins by charting the moral and political panic provoked by Gothic's increasing popularity in the 1790s, and then examines the genre's recuperation as a serious area of literary study.-
Virginia Woolf - To The Lighthouse/The Waves
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F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
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Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
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Shakespeare - Hamlet
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Jean Rhys - Wide Sargasso Sea
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Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights
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The Fiction of Angela Carter
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Tennessee Williams - A Streetcar Named Desire/Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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James Joyce - Ulysses/A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton/North and South
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Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre
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The Poetry of Seamus Heaney
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Shakespeare - Othello
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D.H. Lawrence - The Rainbow/Women in Love
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Samuel Beckett - Waiting for Godot/Endgame
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The Fiction of Ian McEwan
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Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness
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George Orwell - Animal Farm/Nineteen Eighty-Four
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The Rise of the Novel
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Thomas Hardy - Tess of the d'Urbervilles
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Charles Dickens - Great Expectations
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William Faulkner - The Sound and the Fury/As I Lay Dying
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Shakespeare's Late Plays
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The Fiction of Martin Amis
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Shakespeare - King Lear
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George Eliot - Adam Bede/The Mill on the Floss/Middlemarch
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Herman Melville - Moby Dick
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E.M. Forster - A Passage to India
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The Poetry of Sylvia Plath
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Thomas Hardy - The Mayor of Casterbridge / Jude the Obscure
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The Poetry of Ted Hughes
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The Novels of Jeanette Winterson
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Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility/ Pride and Prejudice/ Emma
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The Poetry of W.B. Yeats
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Virginia Woolf - Mrs Dalloway
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Alice Walker - The Color Purple
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Twentieth-Century Irish Literature
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Literature and Science
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Contemporary British Poetry
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The Plays of Tom Stoppard for Stage, Radio, TV and Film
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The Fiction of Margaret Atwood
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The Novels of Kazuo Ishiguro
'..for those who want to deepen their appreciation of the Gothic novel Wright is an articulate and intelligent guide to the critical minefield, digging up the most fascinating and representative texts and marshalling their arguments in a way that makes them accessible to the lay readers, with plentiful insights into the nature of supernatural fiction and its appeal.' - Peter Tennant, Black Static '...the selection and organisation of an impressively wide and relevant range of sources ... and the critical commentaries that accompany them mark this out as an invaluable aid to researching and teaching the Gothic.' - Sue Chaplin, BARS Bulletin
ANGELA WRIGHT is Lecturer in Romantic Literature at the University of Sheffield, UK. She has published numerous articles on the reception of Gothic fiction during the Romantic era in Britain, and women's Gothic writing.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781403936677 |
| ISBN 10 | 1403936676 |
| Title | Gothic Fiction |
| Author | Angela Wright |
| Series | Readers' Guides To Essential Criticism |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2007-07-20 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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