Gothic horror : a guide for students and readers /: a guide for students and readers. (2007)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Clive Bloom.
• Other Names: Bloom, Clive
• Contents: Chronology of significant landmarks in horror and gothic fiction -- Preface to the second edition -- Introduction: death's own backyard / by Clive Bloom -- 1. Gothic whispers -- Extract from 'Of the sublime' / Edmund Burke -- The castle of Otranto, preface to 1764 edition / Horace Walpole -- The castle of Otranto, preface to the second edition / Horace Walpole -- Advertisement for The monk / Matthew Lewis -- Extract from 'On the monk' / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Extract from 'The Italian' / Ann Radcliffe -- Extract from Discourse 1: 'Gothick' / Joshua Reynolds -- Frankenstein, preface to 1818 ed. / Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein, preface to 1831 edition / Mary Shelley -- 'Remarks on Frankenstein: or, the modern Prometheus' / Sir Walter Scott -- Extract from Northanger abbey / Jane Austen -- Extract from Nightmare abbey / Thomas Love Peacock -- Melmoth, the wanderer, preface to the 1820 ed. / Charles Maturin -- 'On the supernatural in poetry' / Ann Radcliffe -- 2. Horror the soul of the plot -- Extract from 'The man of the crowd' / Edgar Allan Poe -- Extract from 'The imp of the perverse' / Edgar Allan Poe -- 'The philosophy of composition' / Edgar Allan Poe -- Extract from Eureka / Edgar Allan Poe -- Extract from 'Marginalia' / Edgar Allan Poe -- Preface to The house of the seven gables / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Extract from The Renaissance / Walter Pater -- Extract from 'Nightmare-touch' / Lafcadio Hearn -- 'An autobiographical postscript' / Edith Wharton -- 3. In the dark -- Extract from 'The uncanny' / Sigmund Freud -- 'On Algernon Blackwood' / Hilaire Belloc -- Preface to The collected ghost stories / M.R. James -- Extract from 'The supernatural in literature' / H.P. Lovecraft -- Extract from The vampire in literature / Montague Summers -- 'I like playing Dracula' / Bela Lugosi -- Author's note from The devil rides out / Dennis Wheatley -- 'Gothic hangover' / E.S. Turner -- 4. Fear makers -- 'On horror writers' / Robert Bloch -- 'Dracula, Frankenstein, Sons and Co.' / Kingsley Amis -- Symposium on H.P. Lovecraft / Los Angeles Science Fiction Society -- Extract from an interview for Playboy / Stephen King -- Extract from 'An evening at Billerica Public Library' / Stephen King -- 'On Stephen King' / Whitley Strieber -- 'On horror and subversion' / Clive Barker -- 5. Contemporary shivers -- 'Terrorism and the Gothic' / David Punter -- Extract from The fantactic / Tzvetan Todorov -- 'Monster culture (seven theses)' / Jeffrey Jerome Cohen -- Extract from Freakery / Rosemarie Garland Thomson -- The body of Frankenstein's monster / Cecil Helman -- 'Narrative structure, liminality, self-similarity: the case of Gothic fiction' / Manuel Aguirre -- 'Victorian horror narratives' / Laurence Talairach-Vielmas -- 'African-American and Afro-Caribbean women's horror as contemporary cultural critique' / Gina Wisker -- 'All dark inside: zombies and detectives' / Clive Bloom -- Epilogue: further thoughts on the Gothic -- Further reading -- Index.
• Edition: 2nd ed
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2007
• Extent: 1 online resource (272 pages)
• Subjects: 823.0872909; 813.0872; Mystery & Detective; Horror tales, American -- History and criticism; Horror tales, English -- History and criticism; Horror tales -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc; Gothic revival (Literature) -- English-speaking countries; Gothic revival (Literature) -- History; Horror tales -- Bibliography; Gothic revival (Literature) -- Bibliography; Gothic novel; Horrorroman; Schauerroman; Schauerroman; Horrorroman; Gothic novel; American/General; General; USA; USA; Englisch; Aufsatzsammlung; Aufsatzsammlung
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137071231; 1137071230
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.