York Notes Companions Gothic Literature

An exploration of Gothic literature from its origins in Horace Walpole’s 1764 classic The Castle of Otranto, through Romantic and Victorian Gothic to modernist and postmodernist takes on the form.

An exploration of Gothic literature from its origins in Horace Walpole’s 1764 classic The Castle of Otranto, through Romantic and Victorian Gothic to modernist and postmodernist takes on the form. The volume surveys key debates such as Female Gothic, the Gothic narrator and nation and empire, and focuses on a wide range of texts including The Mysteries of Udolpho, Frankenstein,Jane Eyre, Dracula,The Magic Toyshop and The Shining.

• | Author: Susan Chaplin
• | Publisher: Pearson Education Limited
• | Publication Date: Jul 26, 2011
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781408266663
• | ISBN-10: 1408266660