Description
Book SynopsisSuitable for students and scholars working on the Gothic, Victorian literature and culture and critical theory, this title offers insight into the complex and various Gothic forms of the 19th century. Each chapter is written by an acknowledged expert in their field on a specific topic within the Victorian writing, including science, and gender.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Locating the Victorian Gothic - Andrew Smith and William Hughes; Realism and the Victorian Gothic: Objects of Terror Transformed - Martin Willis, University of Glamorgan; Sensation Fiction: A Peep Behind the Veil - Laurence Talairach-Vielmas, University of Toulouse; Victorian Gothic Pulp Fiction - Jarlath Killeen, Trinity College Dublin; Victorian Gothic Drama - Diane Long Hoeveler, University of Marquette; Victorian Gothic poetry: The Corpse's Text - Caroline Franklin and Michael Franklin, Swansea University; The Victorian Ghost Story - Nick Freeman, Loughborough University; Victorian Gothic and National Identity- Avril Horner, Kingston University; The Victorian Gothic and Gender - Carol Margaret Davison, University of Windsor; Queer Victorian Gothic - Ardel Thomas, San Francisco College; Victorian Gothic Death - Andrew Smith; Science and the Gothic - Kelly Hurley, University of Colorado at Boulder; Victorian Medicine and the Gothic - William Hughes; Imperial Gothic - Patrick Brantlinger, Indiana University; Fin de Siecle Gothic - Vicky Margree, and Bryony Randall, University of Glasgow; Index.
