The Gothic (Guides to Literature Series) Book

	How to Use This Book
	Chronology
	Introduction
	Backgrounds and Contexts	1
	Civilization and the Goths	3
	Gothic in the Eighteenth Century	7
	Gothic and Romantic	13
	Science, Industry and the Gothic	20
	Victorian Gothic	26
	Art and Architecture	32
	Gothic and Decadence	39
	Imperial Gothic	44
	Gothic Postmodernism	50
	Postcolonial Gothic	54
	Goths and Gothic Subcultures	59
	Gothic Film	65
	Gothic and the Graphic Novel	71
	Writers of Gothic	77
	William Harrison Ainsworth (1805-1882)	79
	Jane Austen (1775-1817)	80
	J. G. Ballard (1930-)	82
	Iain Banks (1954-)	83
	John Banville (1945-)	84
	Clive Barker (1952-)	85
	William Beckford (1760-1844)	87
	E. F. Benson (1867-1940)	88
	Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)	89
	Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951)	90
	Robert Bloch (1917-1994)	91
	Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973)	92
	Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835-1915)	94
	Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855) and Emily Bronte (1818-1848)	95
	Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810)	97
	Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)	98
	James Branch Cabell (1879-1958)	99
	Ramsey Campbell (1946-)	100
	Angela Carter (1940-1992)	101
	Robert W. Chambers (1865-1933)	103
	Wilkie Collins (1824-1889)	104
	Marie Corelli (1855-1924)	105
	Charlotte Dacre (1771/1772?-1825)	106
	Walter de la Mare (1873-1956)	108
	August Derleth (1909-1971)	109
	Charles Dickens (1812-1870)	110
	'Isak Dinesen' (1885-1962)	111
	Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)	113
	Lord Dunsany (1878-1957)	114
	Bret Easton Ellis (1964-)	115
	William Faulkner (1897-1962)	116
	Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865)	118
	William Gibson (1948-)	119
	William Godwin (1756-1836)	120
	H. Rider Haggard (1856-1925)	121
	Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)	123
	James Herbert (1943-)	124
	William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918)	125
	E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776-1822)	127
	James Hogg (1770-1835)	128
	Washington Irving (1783-1859)	129
	G. P. R. James (1799-1860)	130
	Henry James (1843-1916)	131
	M. R. James (1862-1936)	132
	Stephen King (1947-)	134
	Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)	135
	Francis Lathom (1777-1832)	136
	J. Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873)	137
	Sophia Lee (1750-1824)	138
	Vernon Lee (1856-1935)	140
	M. G. Lewis (1775-1818)	141
	David Lindsay (1878-1945)	142
	H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937)	143
	George MacDonald (1824-1905)	144
	Arthur Machen (1863-1947)	146
	James Macpherson (1736-1796)	147
	Richard Matheson (1926-)	148
	Charles Robert Maturin (1780-1824)	149
	Herman Melville (1819-1891)	150
	Joyce Carol Oates (1938-)	152
	Margaret Oliphant (1828-1897)	153
	Mervyn Peake (1911-1968)	154
	Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)	155
	John Polidori (1795-1821)	157
	Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823)	158
	Clara Reeve (1729-1807)	159
	G. W. M. Reynolds (1814-1879)	160
	Anne Rice (1941-)	162
	Walter Scott (1771-1832)	163
	Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851)	164
	Charlotte Smith (1740-1806)	165
	Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)	166
	Bram Stoker (1847-1912)	167
	Horace Walpole (1717-1797)	169
	H. G. Wells (1866-1946)	170
	Edith Wharton (1862-1937)	171
	Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)	172
	Key Works	175
	The Castle of Otranto	177
	Vathek	181
	The Mysteries of Udolpho	185
	Caleb Williams	190
	The Monk	194
	Frankenstein	198
	Melmoth the Wanderer	203
	The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner	208
	Wuthering Heights	212
	The Woman in White	217
	Uncle Silas	222
	The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde	226
	Dracula	230
	The Turn of the Screw	235
	Psycho	240
	Interview with the Vampire	244
	The Shining	248
	American Psycho	253
	Themes and Topics	257
	The Haunted Castle	259
	The Monster	263
	The Vampire	268
	Persecution and Paranoia	273
	Female Gothic	278
	The Uncanny	283
	The History of Abuse	288
	Hallucination and the Narcotic	293
	Guide to Further Reading	298
	Index	305