A New Companion to the Gothic

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4051-9806-6
Verlag: BLACKWELL PUBL

Buch, Englisch, 568 Seiten, Format (B × H): 177 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 1012 g

Reihe: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture

The thoroughly expanded and updated New Companion to the Gothic, provides a series of stimulating insights into Gothic writing, its history and genealogy. The addition of 12 new essays and a section on 'Global Gothic' reflects the direction Gothic criticism has taken over the last decade.

* Many of the original essays have been revised to reflect current debates
* Offers comprehensive coverage of criticism of the Gothic and of the various theoretical approaches it has inspired and spawned
* Features important and original essays by leading scholars in the field
* The editor is widely recognized as the founder of modern criticism of the Gothic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Punter, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Ghost of a History - David Punter

Part I. Gothic Backgrounds

Part II. The Original Gothic

Part III. Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Transformations

Part IV. Gothic Theory and Genre

Part V. The Globalization of Gothic

Part VI. The Continuing Debate

Index

Über Autor(innen)

David Punter is Professor of English at the University of Bristol. He has written extensively on Gothic, romantic, and modern literature, literary theory, and psychoanalysis, as well as producing four volumes of poetry. His recent publications include The Gothic (with Glennis Byron, Blackwell, 2004), Metaphor (2007), Modernity (2007), and Rapture: Literature, Addiction, Secrecy (2009).