The Gothic Tradition

Critical introductions to a range of literary topics and genres. The gothic influence on modern writers such as Angela Carter, Iain Banks and Stephen King is vivid and great as is the effect on the world of film and rock music. Part of the function of this book is to offer some guidance: not in terms of a fixed or definitive set of Gothic characteristics, but rather in giving a framework for questions and explorations.

ISBN	0521777321	Volumes	1
ISBN13	9780521777322 (What's this?)	Weight (grammes)	223
Publisher	Cambridge University Press	Published in	Cambridge
Imprint	Cambridge University Press	Series editor	Barlow, Adrian
Format	Paperback	Series title	Cambridge Contexts in Literature
Publication date	26 Jun 2000	Height (mm)	229
Library of Congress	PR468.G68 S74 2000	Width (mm)	153
DEWEY	809.9164	Spine width (mm)	10
DEWEY edition	DC21	Academic level	Primary/Secondary education
Pages	128	Interest age	From 16 To 19

	Introduction	5
1	Approaching the gothic tradition	8
	The historical context	8
	Gothic influences	10
	The political context	15
	The spiritual context	18
	Gothic literary forms and audiences	22
	Gothic writers and readers	28
	The contemporary context	31
	Contemporary gothic literature	32
	The gothic cinema	36
	Gothic music	38
	Other gothic media	38
	Gothic dangers	39
	Gothic Whitby	40
2	Approaching the texts	46
	Textual characteristics of the gothic	46
	Gothic fascination for the past	47
	The sublime and supernatural in the gothic	49
	Gothic psychology	51
	Gothic horror	53
	Gothic settings	54
	Gothic style	56
3	Texts and extracts	60
	Horace Walpole: from The Castle of Otranto	60
	William Beckford: from Vathek	62
	Matthew Lewis: from The Monk	64
	Ann Radcliffe: from the Italian	70
	Samuel Taylor Coleridge: from 'Christabel'	74
	Mary Shelley: from Frankenstein	76
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