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About the Book

This highly accessible anthology of Gothic writings and criticism provides an essential guide to the genre. The second edition of this critically acclaimed book has been thoroughly revised to include material from the early gothic and a fresh set of contemporary essays, with a supporting timeline and thought provoking introductory material.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements Chronology of Significant Landmarks in Horror and Gothic Fiction Preface to the Second EditionIntroduction PART 1: GOTHIC WHISPERS Extract from Of the Sublime; E.Burke The Castle of Otranto, Preface to 1764 edition; H.Walpole The Castle of Otranto, Preface to second edition; H.Walpole Advertisement to The Monk; M.Lewis Extract from On 'The Monk'; S.T.Coleridge Extract from The Italian; A.Radcliffe Extract from Discourse 1: 'Gothick'; J.Reynolds Frankenstein, Preface to 1817 edition; M.Shelley Frankenstein, Preface to 1831 edition; M.Shelley Remarks on Frankenstein: or the Modern Prometheus; W.Scott Extract from Northanger Abbey; J.Austen Extract from Nightmare Abbey; T.L.Peacock Melmoth, the Wanderer, Preface to 1820 edition; C.Maturin On the Supernatural in Poetry; A.Radcliffe PART 2: HORROR THE SOUL OF THE PLOT Extract from The Man of the Crowd; E.A.Poe Extract from The Imp of the Perverse; E.A.Poe The Philosophy of Composition; E.A.Poe Extract from Eureka; E.A.Poe Extract from Marginalia; E.A.Poe Preface to The House of the Seven Gables; N.Hawthorne Extract from The Renaissance; W.Pater Extract from Nightmare Touch; L.Hearn An Autobiographical Postscript; E.Wharton PART 3: IN THE DARKExtract from The Uncanny; S.Freud On Algernon Blackwood; H.Belloc Preface to The Collected Ghost Stories; M.R.James Extract from The Supernatural in Literature; H.P.Lovecraft Extract from The Vampire in Literature; M.Summers I like Playing Dracula; B.Lugosi Author's Note from The Devil Rides Out; D.Wheatley Gothic Hangover; E.S.Turner PART 4: FEARMAKERS On Horror Writers; R.Bloch Dracula, Frankenstine, Sons and Co.; K.Amis Symposium on H P Lovecraft; Los Angeles Science Fiction Society Extract from Interview for Playboy; S.King Extract from An Evening at Billericay Public Library; S.King On Stephen King; W.Strieber On Horror and Subversion; C.Barker PART 5: CONTEMPORARY SHIVERS Terrorism and the Gothic; D.Punter Extract from The Fantastic; T.Todorov Monster Culture (Seven Theses); J.J.Cohen Extract from Freakery; R.G.Thomson The Body of Frankenstein's Monster; C.Helman Narrative Structure, Liminality, Self Similarity: The Case of Gothic Fiction; M.Aguirre Horror Narratives; L.Talairach-Vielmas African American and Afro Caribbean Women's Horror as Contemporary Cultural Critique; G.Wisker All Dark Inside: Zombies and Detectives; C.Bloom Epilogue: Further Thoughts on the Gothic Further Reading Index

About the Author :
CLIVE BLOOM is Emeritus Professor, Middlesex University, UK. He is the author and editor of many works on popular culture, cultural history and literary criticism. CLIVE BLOOM is Emeritus Professor, Middlesex University, UK. He is the author and editor of many works on popular culture, cultural history and literary criticism.

Review :
'...already deservedly a seminal work of Gothic scholarship.' - Susan Chaplin, BARS Bulletin


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780230001770
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Red Globe Press
  • Edition: Revised edition
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 534 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0230001777
  • Publisher Date: 11 May 2007
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 272
  • Sub Title: A Guide for Students and Readers
  • Width: 138 mm


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