This second volume of The Cambridge History of the Gothic provides a rigorous account of the Gothic in British, American and Continental European culture, from the Romantic period through to the Victorian fin de sičcle. Here, leading scholars in the fields of literature, theatre, architecture and the history of science and popular entertainment explore the Gothic in its numerous interdisciplinary forms and guises, as well as across a range of different international contexts. As much a cultural history of the Gothic in this period as an account of the ways in which the Gothic mode has participated in the formative historical events of modernity, the volume offers fresh perspectives on familiar themes while also drawing new critical attention to a range of hitherto overlooked concerns. From Romanticism, to Penny Bloods, Dickens and even the railway system, the volume provides a compelling and comprehensive study of nineteenth-century Gothic culture.
Recenzijos
' many readers of The Cambridge History of the Gothic will likely find themselves - and the Gothic - in a similarly transformed and renewed state.' Michael Gamer, Review 19 'One of the great strengths of Townshend and Wright's turn to mode instead of form is that they are able to develop a truly interdisciplinary collection of essays, putting literature, history, art, architecture, and drama into conversation with one another.' Joellen Mary Delucia, Eighteenth-Century Studies
Daugiau informacijos
This volume provides an interdisciplinary history of the Gothic in nineteenth-century British, American and European culture.
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 Rocķo Rųdtjer;
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 sičcle Andrew Smith.
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, 17601840 (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).
