Empire and the Gothic
Subtitle: The Politics of Genre
Contributors: Andrew Smith (Editor); William Hughes (Editor)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: February 22, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780333984055
Subjects: Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Literary Criticism; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Gothic & Romance; Horror; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism-English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism-Gothic & Romance; Literary form; Regional, Ethnic, Genre, Specific Subject; Decolonization in literature; Gothic revival (Literature); History and criticism; Horror tales, English; Political fiction, English
First sentence: The first of the two quoted above, A famous section of Byron's note to The Giaour, indicates an important aspect of William Beckford's Vathek (1786).