Gothic category: 300 books
Sinister histories
Gothic novels and representations of the past, from Horace Walpole to Mary Wollstonecraft
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Sinister histories is the first book to offer a detailed exploration of the Gothic's response to Enlightenment historiography. It uncovers hitherto-neglected relationships between fiction and prominent works of eighteenth-century history, locating the Gothic novel in a range of new interdisciplinary...
Dark Assemblages
Pilar Pedraza and the Gothic Story of Development
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
This book examines strategies of transformation (becomings, image-making, and the phantasmagoric) that figure in four stories and a novel by Gothic fiction writer Pilar Pedraza (Spain, 1951). While critics have long associated the Bildungsroman with Gothic fiction, this study takes a close look at...
Journeys into Darkness
Critical Essays on Gothic Horror
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
The tradition of supernatural horror fiction runs deep in Anglo-American literature. From the Gothic novels of the eighteenth century to such contemporary authors as Stephen King and Anne Rice, writers have employed horror fiction to unearth many disquieting truths about the human condition, ranging...
Gothic incest
Gender, sexuality and transgression
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
The first full-length study of incest in the Gothic genre, this book argues that Gothic writers resisted the power structures of their society through incestuous desires. It provides interdisciplinary readings of incest within father-daughter, sibling, mother-son, cousin and uncle-niece relationships...
Queer Others in Victorian Gothic
Transgressing Monstrosity
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Queer Others in Victorian Gothic: Transgressing Monstrosity explores the intersections of Gothic, cultural, gender, queer, socio-economic and postcolonial theories in nineteenth-century British representations of sexuality, gender, class and race. From mid-century authors like Wilkie Collins and Elizabeth...
A Research Guide to Gothic Literature in English
Print and Electronic Sources
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
A Research Guide to Gothic Literature in English covers Gothic cultural artifacts such as literature, film, graphic novels, and videogames. This authoritative guide equips researchers with valuable recent information about noteworthy resources that they can use to study the Gothic effectively and thoroughly.
George Eliot and the Gothic Novel
Genres, Gender and Feeling
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2013
George Eliot and the Gothic Novel is the first monograph to systematically explore George Eliot’s relationship to Gothic genres. It considers the ways in which the author’s ethics link to sensational story-telling tropes. Reappraising the major works of fiction, this study compares passages of...
by Montague Summers
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing many of these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
by Robert McKay, John Miller
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Wolves lope across Gothic imagination. Signs of a pure animality opposed to humanity, in the figure of the werewolf they become liminal creatures that move between the human and the animal. Werewolves function as a site for exploring complex anxieties of difference – of gender, class, race, space,...
The Queer Uncanny
New Perspectives on the Gothic
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2012
The Queer Uncanny: New Perspectives on the Gothic investigates the diverse roles that the uncanny, as defined by Sigmund Freud, Helene Cixous and other theorists, plays in representing lesbian and male gay sexualities and transgender in a selection of contemporary British, American and Caribbean fiction...
Gothic Fiction and the Invention of Terrorism
The Politics and Aesthetics of Fear in the Age of the Reign of Terror
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2014
This book examines the connections between the growth of'terror fiction' - the genre now known as 'Gothic' - in the late eighteenthcentury, and the simultaneous appearance of the conceptual origins of'terrorism' as a category of political action. In the...
Gothic death 1740–1914
A literary history
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Drawing on a range of popular Gothic and Victorian novels, poems and short stories, this book provides the first full length study of representations of death and dying in Gothic texts between 1740 and 1914.
by Clive Leatherdale
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
The resonant and awesome figure of Count Dracula. his Transylvanian lair, and his powers of supernatural evil, have imprinted themselves on the popular imagination, largely through the medium of the cinema. And yet, until now, no one has undertaken a detailed analysis of the source of our preconceptions...
Golems, Vampires and Wanderers:
Essays in Gothic Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012
Welcome to a world of insanity, wicked monks, sublime landscapes, romantic heroines, golems, vampires, and wanderers.... Essays on the relationship between fantasy fiction and the Gothic, including the Gothic clazzics Bram Stoker's Dracula, Charles Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer, Ann...