Gothic Horror: A Guide for Students and Readers
Autor Clive Bloomen Limba Engleză Paperback – 10 mai 2007
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780230001787
ISBN-10: 0230001785
Pagini: 272
Ilustrații: black & white illustrations
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Ediția:Revizuită
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Red Globe Press
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0230001785
Pagini: 272
Ilustrații: black & white illustrations
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Ediția:Revizuită
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Red Globe Press
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Caracteristici
The first edition was critically acclaimed, and a runner up for both the International Horror Guild Award and the Bram Stoker Award
Notă biografică
CLIVE BLOOM is Emeritus Professor, Middlesex University, UK. He is the author and editor of many works on popular culture, cultural history and literary criticism.
Cuprins
AcknowledgementsChronology of Significant Landmarks in Horror and Gothic FictionPreface to the Second EditionIntroductionPART 1: GOTHIC WHISPERSExtract from Of the Sublime; E.Burke The Castle of Otranto, Preface to 1764 edition; H.Walpole The Castle of Otranto, Preface to second edition; H.Walpole Advertisement to The Monk; M.Lewis Extract from On 'The Monk'; S.T.Coleridge Extract from The Italian; A.Radcliffe Extract from Discourse 1: 'Gothick'; J.Reynolds Frankenstein, Preface to 1817 edition; M.Shelley Frankenstein, Preface to 1831 edition; M.Shelley Remarks on Frankenstein: or the Modern Prometheus; W.Scott Extract from Northanger Abbey; J.Austen Extract from Nightmare Abbey; T.L.Peacock Melmoth, the Wanderer, Preface to 1820 edition; C.Maturin On the Supernatural in Poetry; A.Radcliffe PART 2: HORROR THE SOUL OF THE PLOTExtract from The Man of the Crowd; E.A.Poe Extract from The Imp of the Perverse; E.A.Poe The Philosophy of Composition; E.A.Poe Extract from Eureka; E.A.Poe Extract from Marginalia; E.A.Poe Preface to The House of the Seven Gables; N.Hawthorne Extract from The Renaissance; W.Pater Extract from Nightmare Touch; L.Hearn An Autobiographical Postscript; E.Wharton PART 3: IN THE DARKExtract from The Uncanny; S.Freud On Algernon Blackwood; H.Belloc Preface to The Collected Ghost Stories; M.R.James Extract from The Supernatural in Literature; H.P.Lovecraft Extract from The Vampire in Literature; M.Summers I like Playing Dracula; B.Lugosi Author's Note from The Devil Rides Out; D.Wheatley Gothic Hangover; E.S.Turner PART 4: FEARMAKERSOn Horror Writers; R.Bloch Dracula, Frankenstine, Sons and Co.; K.Amis Symposium on H P Lovecraft; Los Angeles Science Fiction Society Extract from Interview for Playboy; S.King Extract from An Evening at Billericay Public Library; S.King On Stephen King; W.Strieber On Horror and Subversion; C.Barker PART 5: CONTEMPORARY SHIVERSTerrorism and the Gothic; D.Punter Extract from The Fantastic; T.Todorov Monster Culture (Seven Theses); J.J.Cohen Extract from Freakery; R.G.Thomson The Body of Frankenstein's Monster; C.Helman Narrative Structure, Liminality, Self Similarity: The Case of Gothic Fiction; M.Aguirre Horror Narratives; L.Talairach-Vielmas African American and Afro Caribbean Women's Horror as Contemporary Cultural Critique; G.Wisker All Dark Inside: Zombies and Detectives; C.Bloom Epilogue: Further Thoughts on the GothicFurther ReadingIndex