Gothic Literature Books

1-10 of 13 results in Subjects › Language & Literature › Literature › Gothic Literature

1. The Gothic in Children's Literature: Haunting the Borders

   Edited by Anna Jackson, Roderick McGillis, Karen Coats

   From creepy picture books to Harry Potter, Lemony Snicket, the Spiderwick Chronicles, and countless vampire series for young adult readers, fear has become a dominant mode of entertainment for young readers. The last two decades have seen an enormous growth in the critical study of two very...

   October 2009 | 978-0-415-87574-5 | Paperback (Routledge)
2. 

   Gothic Shakespeares

   Edited by John Drakakis, Dale Townshend

   Readings of Shakespeare were both influenced by and influential in the rise of Gothic forms in literature and culture from the late eighteenth century onwards. Shakespeare’s plays are full of ghosts, suspense, fear-inducing moments and cultural anxieties which many writers in the Gothic mode have...

   2008 | 978-0-415-42067-9 | Paperback (Routledge)
3. 

   Haunting and Displacement in African American Literature and Culture

   By Marisa Parham

   Looking at texts including Jean Toomer’s Cane, Toni Morrison’s Beloved, James Baldwin’s Another Country, and Beat poetry by Bob Kaufmann, in this original study, Parham describes the phenomena of haunting, displacement, and ghostliness as endemic to modern African American literature and...

   2008 | 978-0-415-99094-3 | Hardback (Routledge)
4. 

   Gothic Romanced: Consumption, Gender and Technology in Contemporary Fictions

   By Fred Botting

   The dark, destructive and monstrous elements of gothic fiction have traditionally been seen in opposition to the rose-tinted idealism of Romanticism. In this ground-breaking study, Fred Botting re-evaluates the relationship between the two genres in order to plot the shifting alignments of popular...

   2008 | 978-0-415-45090-4 | Paperback (Routledge)
5. 

   The Routledge Companion to Gothic

   Edited by Catherine Spooner, Emma McEvoy

   In a wide ranging series of introductory essays written by some of the leading figures in the field, this essential guide explores the world of Gothic in all its myriad forms throughout the mid-eighteenth Century to the internet age. The Routledge Companion to Gothic includes discussion on:...

   2007 | 978-0-415-39843-5 | Paperback (Routledge)

6. Gothic: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies

   Edited by Fred Botting, Dale Townshead

   In the last two decades criticism of Gothic fiction has been transformed from a scholarly backwater, interesting itself in literary curiosities, to a wave of wide-ranging critical investigations collectively convinced of the significance, scope and centrality of the genre.Embracing recent...

   2004 | 978-0-415-25112-9 | Hardback (Routledge)
7. 

   Mary Shelley's Frankenstein: A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook

   Edited by Timothy Morton

   Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is one of the most widely studied works of English literature, and Frankenstein's creature is a key figure in the popular imagination. This sourcebook examines Mary Shelley's novel within its literary and cultural contexts, bringing together material on: *the contexts...

   2002 | 978-0-415-22732-2 | Paperback (Routledge)

8. Sisters of Gore: Seven Gothic Melodramas by British Women, 1790-1843

   Edited by John C. Franceschina

   The plays collected in Sisters of Gore span the development of Gothic melodrama from the 1790s to the 1840s....

   2000 | 978-0-415-92897-7 | Paperback (Routledge)

9. Ghost Stories by British and American Women: A Selected, Annotated Bibliography

   By Lynette Carpenter, Wendy K. Kolmar

   1998 | 978-0-8240-5540-0 | Hardback (Routledge)
10. 

    Gothic

    By Fred Botting

    Tailored specifically for students new to the daunting field of literary theory, Fred Botting's Gothic is a clear and welcome introduction to the study of this compelling genre. This lucid, easy-to-follow guide: * Explains the transformations of the genre through history * Outlines all the major...

    1995 | 978-0-415-09219-7 | Paperback (Routledge)