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1003284
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b757654
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| Main Entry
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Smith, Andrew,1964-
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| Title & Author
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Gothic literature /\ Andrew Smith.
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| Publication Statement
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Edinburgh :: Edinburgh University Press,, ©2007.
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| Series Statement
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Edinburgh critical guides to literature
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1 online resource (xxvi, 201 pages).
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| ISBN
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0748630155
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0748623698
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0748623701
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9780748623693
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9780748623709
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-196) and index.
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| Contents
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Gothic histories -- Reading the gothic -- Burke -- Freud -- The gothic heyday 1760-1820 -- Defining the gothic: Otranto -- Radcliffe and Lewis -- American gothic -- Reading Frankenstein -- The gothic, 1820-1865 -- Gothic mutations: poetry -- Edgar Allen Poe and the American gothic -- Gothic mutations: prose -- Reading Jane Eyre -- Gothic Proximities, 1865-1900 -- Hidden identities: ghosts -- Gothic doubles -- Race and history: post-bellum gothic -- Reading Dracula -- Twentieth century -- The ghost story as the end of gothic? -- Radio and film -- Contemparary fiction: postmodern gothic? -- Reading The silence of the lambs.
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| Abstract
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This introductory study provides a thorough grounding in both the history of Gothic literature and the way in which Gothic texts have been (and can be) critically read. The book opens with a chronology and an introduction to the principal texts and key critical terms, followed by four chapters: The Gothic Heyday 1760-1820; Gothic 1820-1865; Gothic Proximities 1865-1900; and the Twentieth Century. The discussion examines how the Gothic has developed in different national contexts and in different forms, including novels, novellas, poems, and films. Each chapter concludes with a close reading of.
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American literature-- 18th century-- History and criticism.
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American literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
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English literature-- 18th century-- History and criticism.
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English literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
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Gothic revival (Literature)-- Great Britain.
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Gothic revival (Literature)-- United States.
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American literature.
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English literature.
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Gothic revival (Literature)
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- European-- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Gothic novel.
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Great Britain.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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820.911
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| LC Classification
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PR408.G68S65 2007eb
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