204 Pages
by
Routledge
204 Pages
by
Routledge
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The poetry of Robert Browning (1812–89) makes unmistakable use of the tropes of the eighteenth-century Gothic novel, but only in the last few years has there been any interest in the poet’s wider relationship with the genre. Building on recent critical literature, Robert Browning and the Gothic Imagination is the first study systematically to demonstrate Gothic’s importance in Browning’s... Read more
Introduction
Chapter I: Browning’s Gothic Beginnings
Chapter II: Lyric Terror, Dramatic Horror
Chapter III: The Evolution of a Gothic Poet, 1837–1853
Chapter IV: Dark Tower
Chapter V: Sludge, Bagehot, Caliban
Chapter VI: The Ring and the Book: Gothic Redivivus
Chapter VII: After Guido
Conclusion: Bloodred and Lamp-black
Biography
Justin Gilbert is an independent researcher and one of the editors of The Poems of Robert Browning (Longman Annotated English Poets). He completed his PhD in July 2024 on Robert Browning and Gothic literature.
