The handbook to Gothic literature
By: edited by Marie Mulvey-Roberts.
Contributors: Mulvey Roberts, Marie.
Edition: 2nd rev. ed.
Publisher: New York University Press; NYU Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Trade Paperback
Number of pages: 355
ISBN-13: 9780814796016; 9780814796023
Subjects: Gothic revival (Literature) -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Horror tales -- History and criticism -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Fantasy fiction -- History and criticism -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Genres: Handbooks, manuals, etc
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Writers of gothic. Ainsworth, W. Harrison / R. A.Gilbert -- Beckford, William / Michael Franklin -- Bierce, Ambrose / Alan Lloyd Smith -- Blackwood, Algernon / Thomas Willard -- The Brontes / Elizabeth Imlay -- Brown, Charles Brockden / T. J. Lustig -- Bulwer Lytton, Edward / Helen Small -- Carter, Angela / Elaine Jordan -- Collins, (William) Wilkie / Andrew Smith -- Dacre, Charlotte / Marie Mulvey-Roberts -- Dickens, Charles / Benjamin F. Fisher -- Doyle, Arthur Conan / Clive Bloom -- Du Maurier, Daphne / Avril Horner and Sue Zlosnik -- Goethe, J. W. von / Eric Hadley Denton -- Hawthorne, Nathaniel / Robert Miles -- Hill, Susan / Val Scullion -- Hoffmann, E. T. A. / Hans-Ulrich Mohr -- Hogg, James / Douglas S. Mack -- Irving, Washington / Allan Lloyd Smith -- Jackson, Shirley / Jodey Castricano -- Jacobs, W. W. / John Cloy -- James, Henry / T. J. Lustig -- James, Montague Rhodes / William Hughes -- King, Stephen / David Punter -- Le Fanu, J. Sheridan / W. J. McCormack -- Lee, Tanith / Nick Freeman -- Lewis, Matthew / Nicola Trott -- Lovecraft, H. P. / Clive Bloom -- Machen, Arthur / R. A. Gilbert -- Maturin, Charles Robert / Cecile Malet-Dagreou -- Melville, Herman / A. Robert Lee -- Onions, Oliver / Rachel Jackson -- Poe, Edgar Allan / Benjamin F. Fisher -- Polidori, John / Marie Mulvey-Roberts -- Radcliffe, Ann / Robert Miles -- Rice, Anne / Marie Mulvey-Roberts -- Sade, Marquis De / E. J. Clery -- Shelley, Mary / Marie Mulvey-Roberts -- Shelley, P. B. / Nicola Trott -- Stevenson, Robert Louis / Jerrold E. Hogle -- Stoker, Bram / William Hughes -- Walpole, Horace / E. J. Clery -- Wilde, Oscar / Neil Sammells -- Gothic terms, themes, concepts and contexts. The abject / Colette Conroy -- Bluebooks and chapbooks / Franz J. Potter -- Cabbalism / Thomas Willard -- Colonial gothic / Alexandra Warwick -- Comic gothic / Avril Horner and Sue Zlosnik -- Contemporary gothic / Ann B. Tracy -- Counterfeit / Jerrold E. Hogle -- Cyberpunk / Iain Hamilton Grant -- Death / Elisabeth Bronfen -- The demonic / Helen Stoddart -- Doppelganger / Antonio Ballesteros Gonzalez --  The fantastic / Neil Cornwell -- Female gothic / Alison Milbank -- Ghost stories / R. A. Gilbert -- Golem / Madge Dresser -- Goth, gothic / U. A. Fanthorpe -- Gothic architecture see gothic revival -- Gothic art / Graham Ovenden -- Gothic body / Steven Bruhm -- Gothic in children's literature / Charles Butler and Hallie O'Donovan -- Gothic comics see gothic graphic novel and comics -- Gothic drama / Jeffrey N. Cox -- Gothic fairy-tale / Lucie Armitt -- Gothic film / Ian Conrich -- Gothic graphic novel and comics / Anna Powell -- Gothic language /  John Charles Smith -- Gothic manservant / Janet Todd -- Gothic medicine / William Hughes -- Gothic music / Diane Mason -- Gothic novel / Victor Sage -- Gothic parody / Daryl Jones -- Gothic photography / Philip Stokes -- Gothic revival / Victor Sage -- Gothic romance / Ann. B. Tracy -- Gothic science fiction / David Seed -- Graphic novel see gothic graphic novel and comics -- Graveyard school / Steve Clark --  The grotesque / Neil Cornwell -- Hermetism / Thomas Willard -- Hero-villain / Helen Stoddart -- Heroine / Avril Horner -- Historico-gothic / Mary Waldron -- Horror / Fred Botting -- Illuminati novels / Pascal Nicklas -- Imagination / Philip W. Martin --  Jacobean tragedy / Charles Butler -- The lamia / Philip W. Martin -- Lycanthropy / Tina Rath -- Madness / Helen Small -- Magical realism / Amaryll Beatrice Ghanady -- Monstrosity / Fred Botting -- Necromancy / Carolyn D. Williams -- New gothic see contemporary gothic -- Nightmare / Philip W. Martin -- Northanger novels / Mary Waldron -- Occultism / Thomas Willard -- Orientalism / Michael Franklin -- Paranoid gothic / David Punter -- Penny dreadfuls / R. A. Gilbert -- The phantom / Allan Lloyd Smith -- Politico-gothic / Mary Waldron -- Popular horror fiction / Richard Kerridge -- Porphyria / Tina Rath -- Postcolonial gothic / Ken Gelder -- Roman noir / Terry Hale -- Romanticism / Philip W. Martin -- Rosicrucian fiction / Marie Mulvey-Roberts -- Sado-masochism / Elisabeth Bronfen -- Schauerroman / Marie Mulvey-Roberts -- Sensation fiction / Sally Ledger -- Sensibility / Janet Todd -- Spiritualism /  Sally Ledger -- Sturm und drang / Marie Mulvey-Roberts -- The sublime / Alison Milbank -- The supernatural / Clive Bloom -- Terror / David Punter -- Transgression / Avril Horner -- The uncanny see Unheimlich -- Unheimlich (The uncanny) / Avril Horner -- Urban gothic / Alexandra Warwick -- Vampire / William Hughes -- Wandering Jew / Hans-Ulrich Mohr -- Werewolf see Lycanthropy -- Witches and witchcraft / Faye Ringel -- Wizards / Faye Ringel -- Zerrissenheit / Christoph Houswitschka -- Gothic locations. African-American gothic / Carol Margaret Davison -- American gothic / Allan Lloyd Smith -- Anglo-Caribbean gothic / Carol Margaret Davison -- Australian gothic / Gerry Turcotte -- Colonial gothic / Alexandra Warwick -- English-Canadian gothic / Gerry Turcotte -- Frenetique school / Terry Hale -- German gothic / Hans-Ulrich Mohr -- Irish gothic / W. J. McCormack -- Japanese gothic / Eimi Ozawa -- Postcolonial gothic / Ken Gelder -- Roman noir / Terry Hale -- Russian gothic / Neil Cornwell -- San Francisco gothic / William Veeder -- Scottish gothic / Douglas S. Mack -- Southern gothic / A. Robert Lee -- Welsh gothic / Sion Eirian -- Selected further reading -- Websites on the gothic -- Gothic film - a select filmography / Ian Conrich.