The Cambridge History of the Gothic: Volume 2, Gothic in the Nineteenth Century

The Cambridge History of the Gothic: Volume 2, Gothic in the Nineteenth Century
Title The Cambridge History of the Gothic: Volume 2, Gothic in the Nineteenth Century PDF eBook
Author Catherine Spooner
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 1014
Release 2020-08-06
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1108678408

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This second volume of The Cambridge History of the Gothic provides a rigorous account of the Gothic in British, American and Continental European culture, from the Romantic period through to the Victorian fin de siècle. Here, leading scholars in the fields of literature, theatre, architecture and the history of science and popular entertainment explore the Gothic in its numerous interdisciplinary forms and guises, as well as across a range of different international contexts. As much a cultural history of the Gothic in this period as an account of the ways in which the Gothic mode has participated in the formative historical events of modernity, the volume offers fresh perspectives on familiar themes while also drawing new critical attention to a range of hitherto overlooked concerns. From Romanticism, to Penny Bloods, Dickens and even the railway system, the volume provides a compelling and comprehensive study of nineteenth-century Gothic culture.

The Cambridge History of the Gothic

The Cambridge History of the Gothic
Title The Cambridge History of the Gothic PDF eBook
Author Angela Wright
Publisher
Pages
Release 2020
Genre Architecture, Gothic
ISBN 9781108662017

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"The Cambridge History of the Gothic was conceived in 2015, when Linda Bree, then Editorial Director at Cambridge University Press, first suggested the idea to us. After much discussion and writing, what began life as a modest single-volume project became a larger and far more ambitious three-volume work."--

The Cambridge History of the Gothic: Volume 3, Gothic in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

The Cambridge History of the Gothic: Volume 3, Gothic in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
Title The Cambridge History of the Gothic: Volume 3, Gothic in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries PDF eBook
Author Catherine Spooner
Publisher Cambridge History of the G
Pages 555
Release 2021-08-19
Genre Architecture
ISBN 1108472729

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The first volume to provide an interdisciplinary, comprehensive history of twentieth and twenty-first century Gothic culture.

The Cambridge History of American Literature: Volume 2, Prose Writing 1820-1865

The Cambridge History of American Literature: Volume 2, Prose Writing 1820-1865
Title The Cambridge History of American Literature: Volume 2, Prose Writing 1820-1865 PDF eBook
Author Sacvan Bercovitch
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 930
Release 1994
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9780521301060

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This is the fullest and richest account of the American Renaissance available in any literary history. The narratives in this volume made for a four-fold perspective on literature: social, cultural, intellectual and aesthetic. Michael D. Bell describes the social conditions of the literary vocation that shaped the growth of a professional literature in the United States. Eric Sundquist draws upon broad cultural patterns: his account of the writings of exploration, slavery, and the frontier is an interweaving of disparate voices, outlooks and traditions. Barbara L. Packer's sources come largely from intellectual history: the theological and philosophical controversies that prepared the way for transcendentalism. Jonathan Arac's categories are formalist: he sees the development of antebellum fiction as a dialectic of prose genres, the emergence of a literary mode out of the clash of national, local and personal forms. Together, these four narratives constitute a basic reassessment of American prose-writing between 1820 and 1865. It is an achievement that will remain authoritative for our time and that will set new directions for coming decades in American literary scholarship.

The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction

The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction
Title The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction PDF eBook
Author Jerrold E. Hogle
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 526
Release 2002-08-29
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1107494486

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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.

A history of the Gothic revival

A history of the Gothic revival
Title A history of the Gothic revival PDF eBook
Author Charles Locke Eastlake
Publisher
Pages 526
Release 1872
Genre Architecture
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The Cambridge History of the Gothic: Volume 1, Gothic in the Long Eighteenth Century

The Cambridge History of the Gothic: Volume 1, Gothic in the Long Eighteenth Century
Title The Cambridge History of the Gothic: Volume 1, Gothic in the Long Eighteenth Century PDF eBook
Author Angela Wright
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 929
Release 2020-08-06
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1316999645

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This first volume of The Cambridge History of the Gothic provides a rigorous account of the Gothic in Western civilisation, from the Goths' sacking of Rome in 410 AD through to its manifestations in British and European culture of the long eighteenth century. Written by international cast of leading scholars, the chapters explore the interdisciplinary nature of the Gothic in the fields of history, literature, architecture and fine art. As much a cultural history of Gothic as an account of the ways in which the Gothic has participated within a number of formative historical events across time, the volume offers fresh perspectives on familiar themes while also drawing new critical attention to a range of hitherto overlooked concerns. From writers such as Horace Walpole and Ann Radcliffe to eighteenth-century politics and theatre, the volume provides a thorough and engaging overview of early Gothic culture in Britain and beyond.