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Book SynopsisThis second volume of The Cambridge History of the Gothic provides a rigorous account of the Gothic in British, American and Continental European culture, from the Romantic period through to the Victorian fin de siècle. Here, leading scholars in the fields of literature, theatre, architecture and the history of science and popular entertainment explore the Gothic in its numerous interdisciplinary forms and guises, as well as across a range of different international contexts. As much a cultural history of the Gothic in this period as an account of the ways in which the Gothic mode has participated in the formative historical events of modernity, the volume offers fresh perspectives on familiar themes while also drawing new critical attention to a range of hitherto overlooked concerns. From Romanticism, to Penny Bloods, Dickens and even the railway system, the volume provides a compelling and comprehensive study of nineteenth-century Gothic culture.
Trade Review'… many readers of The Cambridge History of the Gothic will likely find themselves - and the Gothic - in a similarly transformed and renewed state.' Michael Gamer, Review 19
'One of the great strengths of Townshend and Wright's turn to mode instead of form is that they are able to develop a truly interdisciplinary collection of essays, putting literature, history, art, architecture, and drama into conversation with one another.' Joellen Mary Delucia, Eighteenth-Century Studies
Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Gothic romanticism and the summer of 1816 Angela Wright and Madeleine Callaghan; 2. Fantasmagoriana: The cosmopolitan gothic and Frankenstein Maximiliaan van Woudenberg; 3. The mutation of the vampire in nineteenth-century gothic Jerrold E. Hogle; 4. From romantic gothic to Victorian medievalism: 1817 and 1877 Tom Duggett; 5. Nineteenth-century gothic architectural aesthetics: A. W. N. Pugin, John Ruskin and William Morris Alexandra Warwick; 6. Gothic fiction, from shilling shockers to penny bloods Anthony Mandal; 7. The theatrical gothic in the nineteenth century Kelly Jones; 8. 'Specterology': gothic showmanship in nineteenth-century popular shows and media Joe Kember; 9. The gothic in Victorian poetry Serena Trowbridge; 10. The genesis of the Victorian ghost story Scott Brewster; 11. Charles dickens and the gothic John Bowen; 12. Victorian domestic gothic fiction Tamar Heller; 13. The gothic in nineteenth-century Spain Xavier Aldana Reyes and Rocío Rødtjer; 14. The gothic in nineteenth-century Italy Francesca Saggini; 15. The gothic in nineteenth-century Scotland Suzanne Gilbert; 16. The gothic in nineteenth-century Ireland Christina Morin; 17. The gothic in nineteenth-century America Charles L. Crow; 18. Nineteenth-century British and American gothic and the history of slavery Maisha Wester; 19. Genealogies of monstrosity: Darwin, the biology of crime and nineteenth-century British gothic literature Corinna Wagner; 20. Gothic and the coming of the railways William Hughes; 21. Gothic imperialism at the fin de siècle Andrew Smith.
