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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 | |
Jane Austen: from Northanger Abbey | 77 | |
John Keats: 'Le Belle Dame sans Merci' | 81 | |
Edgar Allan Poe: 'The Raven' | 82 | |
Emily Bronte: from Wuthering Heights | 86 | |
Robert Louis Stevenson: from Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | 87 | |
Bram Stoker: from Dracula | 90 | |
Susan Hill: from The Woman in Black | 92 | |
4 | Critical approaches | 95 |
The nature of literary criticism | 95 | |
Historical survey of critical approaches to the gothic | 96 | |
Survey of contemporary critical approaches to the gothic | 100 | |
5 | How to write about the gothic | 112 |
A sense of genre | 112 | |
An appreciation of purpose | 114 | |
Insights into audience | 115 | |
6 | Resources | 120 |
Chronology | 120 | |
Further reading | 121 | |
Glossary | 126 | |
Index | 127 |
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