num_pages: 354
description: Fourteen world-class experts on the Gothic provide thorough accounts of this haunting-to-horrifying genre from the 1760s to the end of the twentieth century. Essays explore the connections of Gothic fictions to political and industrial revolutions, the realistic novel, the theater, Romantic and post-Romantic poetry, nationalism and racism from Europe to America, colonized and post-colonial populations, the rise of film, the struggles between "high" and "popular" culture, and changing attitudes towards human identity, life and death, sanity and madness. The volume also includes a chronology and guides to further reading.
language: English
title: The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction
titlecomplete: The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
genres: Essays, Books About Books, History, Literary Criticism, Gothic, Reference, Horror, Nonfiction, Theory, Academic
ratings_count: 236
publisher: Cambridge University Press