Gothic and romantic: an historical overview / Dale Townshend and Angela Wright -- Graveyard writing and the rise of the Gothic / Vincent Quinn -- Gothic romance / Deborah Russell -- The gothic stage: visions of instability, performances of anxiety / Diego Saglia -- Gothic poetry and first-generation romanticism / Joel Faflak -- Gothic and second-generation romanticism: Lord Byron, P.B. Shelley, John Polidori and Mary Shelley / Jerrold E. Hogle -- Political gothic fiction / Robert Miles -- Shorter gothic fictions: ballads and chapbooks, tales and fragments / Douglass H. Thomson and Diane Long Hoeveler -- Oriental gothic / Peter J. Kitson -- Gothic parody / Natalie Neill -- Gothic borders: Scotland, Ireland and Wales / Meiko O'Halloran -- Gothic travels / Mark Bennett -- The romantic and the gothic in Europe: the elementary spirits in France and Germany as a vehicle for the transmission and development of the Fantastique, 1772-1835 / Victor Sage -- American gothic passages / Carol Margaret Davison -- Gothic and the language of terror / Jane Hodson -- Gothic science / Andrew Smith -- Gender and sexuality in gothic romanticism / Patrick R. O'Malley -- Gothic forms of time: architecture, romanticism, medievalism / Tom Duggett -- Gothic theology / Alison Milbank.
Summary:
"Traces the Gothic impulses in proto-Romantic and Romantic British, American and European culture, 1740-1830"--Back cover.
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