Cambridge History of the Gothic: Volume 1, Gothic in the Long - Eighteenth Centur

This volume provides an interdisciplinary history of the Gothic, from antiquity up to the end of the long eighteenth century.

List of contents

Introduction: The Gothic in/and History Dale Townshend, Angela Wright and Catherine Spooner 1. The Goths in Ancient History David M. Gwynn; 2. The Term 'Gothic' in the Long Eighteenth Century, 1680¿1800 Nick Groom; 3. The Literary Gothic Before Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto Dale Townshend; 4. Gothic Revival Architecture Before Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill Peter N. Lindfield; 5. Horace Walpole and the Gothic Stephen Clarke; 6. Shakespeare's Gothic Transmigrations Anne Williams; 7. Reassessing the Gothic / Classical Relationship James Uden; 8. 'A World of Bad Spirits': The Terrors of Eighteenth-Century Empire Ruth Scobie; 9. In Their Blood: The Eighteenth-Century Gothic Stage Paula R. Backscheider; 10. Domestic Gothic Writing after Horace Walpole and before Ann Radcliffe Deborah Russell; 11. Early British Gothic and the American Revolution James Watt; 12. Gothic and the French Revolution, 1789-1804 Fanny Lacôte; 13. The Aesthetics of Terror and Horror: A Genealogy Eric Parisot; 14. Ann Radcliffe and Matthew Lewis Angela Wright; 15. The Gothic Novel Beyond Radcliffe and Lewis Yael Shapira; 16. Oriental Gothic: Imperial-Commercial Nightmares from the Eighteenth Century to the Romantic Period Diego Saglia; 17. The German 'School' of Horrors: A Pharmacology of the Gothic Barry Murnane; 18. Gothic and the History of Sexuality Jolene Zigarovich; 19. Gothic Art and Gothic Culture in the Romantic Era Martin Myrone; 20. Time in the Gothic Robert Miles; Select Bibliography

Product details

• Authors: Angela (University of Sheffield) Townshend Wright
• Assisted by: Dale Townshend (Editor), Townshend Dale (Editor), Angela Wright (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.08.2020
• EAN: 9781108472708
• ISBN: 978-1-108-47270-8
• No. of pages: 516
• Series: The Cambridge History of the Gothic
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Gothic, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, History of Art, History of Architecture, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800, C 1700 To C 1800