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This volume provides an interdisciplinary history of the Gothic in nineteenth-century British, American and European culture.
Sommario
Introduction; 1. Gothic romanticism and the summer of 1816 Angela Wright and Madeleine Callaghan; 2. Fantasmagoriana: The cosmopolitan gothic and Frankenstein Maximiliaan van Woudenberg; 3. The mutation of the vampire in nineteenth-century gothic Jerrold E. Hogle; 4. From romantic gothic to Victorian medievalism: 1817 and 1877 Tom Duggett; 5. Nineteenth-century gothic architectural aesthetics: A. W. N. Pugin, John Ruskin and William Morris Alexandra Warwick; 6. Gothic fiction, from shilling shockers to penny bloods Anthony Mandal; 7. The theatrical gothic in the nineteenth century Kelly Jones; 8. 'Specterology': gothic showmanship in nineteenth-century popular shows and media Joe Kember; 9. The gothic in Victorian poetry Serena Trowbridge; 10. The genesis of the Victorian ghost story Scott Brewster; 11. Charles dickens and the gothic John Bowen; 12. Victorian domestic gothic fiction Tamar Heller; 13. The gothic in nineteenth-century Spain Xavier Aldana Reyes and Rocío Rødtjer; 14. The gothic in nineteenth-century Italy Francesca Saggini; 15. The gothic in nineteenth-century Scotland Suzanne Gilbert; 16. The gothic in nineteenth-century Ireland Christina Morin; 17. The gothic in nineteenth-century America Charles L. Crow; 18. Nineteenth-century British and American gothic and the history of slavery Maisha Wester; 19. Genealogies of monstrosity: Darwin, the biology of crime and nineteenth-century British gothic literature Corinna Wagner; 20. Gothic and the coming of the railways William Hughes; 21. Gothic imperialism at the fin de siècle Andrew Smith.
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Dale Townshend is Professor of Gothic Literature in the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies, Manchester Metropolitan University. He has published widely on Gothic writing of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. His most recent monograph is Gothic Antiquity: History, Romance, and the Architectural Imagination, 1760–1840 (2019).Angela Wright is Professor of Romantic Literature at the University of Sheffield, and a former co-President of the International Gothic Association (IGA). Her books include Britain, France and the Gothic: The Import of Terror, 1764-1820 (Cambridge University Press, 2013), Mary Shelley (University of Wales Press, 2018), and the co-edited volumes Ann Radcliffe, Romanticism and the Gothic (2014, with Dale Townshend) and Romantic Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion (2015, with Dale Townshend).
Riassunto
Comprising twenty-one essays by leading international scholars, this volume offers a comprehensive account of Gothic culture in Britain, America and Continental Europe in the nineteenth century. Interdisciplinary in its focus, it includes chapters on literature, architecture, science, theatre, historiography and popular entertainment.
