Robert Browning and the Gothic Imagination

Robert Browning and the Gothic Imagination explores the centrality of familiar motifs associated with Gothic literature in Browning's literary development.

List of contents

Introduction
Chapter I: Browning's Gothic Beginnings
Chapter II: Lyric Terror, Dramatic Horror
Chapter III: The Evolution of a Gothic Poet, 1837-1853
Chapter IV: Dark Tower
Chapter V: Sludge, Bagehot, Caliban
Chapter VI: The Ring and the Book: Gothic Redivivus
Chapter VII: After Guido
Conclusion: Bloodred and Lamp-black

About the author

Justin Gilbert is an independent researcher and part of the editorial board for The Poems of Robert Browning (Longman Annotated English Poets). He completed his PhD in July 2024 on Robert Browning and the Gothic Imagination.

Product details

• Authors: Justin Gilbert, Gilbert Justin, Gilbert Justin
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 02.12.2025
• EAN: 9781041030096
• ISBN: 978-1-0-4103009-6
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Gothic & Romance, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Poetry / Poems