Gothic

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Like all of the NCI series, this title is an introduction designed not only to define modern terms of lit crit but also to stimulate discussion and encourage a deeper knowledge of the subject. Traces the history of the gothic and cultural significance of the form, from

its beginnings in the 18th cent. to modern times. Takse the student from basic material towards the more subtle in an accessible way.

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Overview

Like all of the NCI series, this title is an introduction designed not only to define modern terms of lit crit but also to stimulate discussion and encourage a deeper knowledge of the subject. Traces the history of the gothic and cultural significance of the form, from

its beginnings in the 18th cent. to modern times. Takse the student from basic material towards the more subtle in an accessible way.

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780415132299
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • Publication date: 12/18/1995
  • Series: New Critical Idiom Series
  • Pages: 224
  • Age range: 18 years
  • Product dimensions: 5.50 (w) x 8.50 (h) x 0.63 (d)

Meet the Author

Fred Botting is Professor English Literature And Creative Writing at Kingston University, UK. He has written extensively on Gothic fictions, and on theory, film and cultural forms. His current research projects include work on fiction and film dealing with figures of horror - zombies in particular - and on spectrality, the uncanny and sexuality.

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Table of Contents

Preface: The Gothic 1
Gothic: Violence, Trauma and the Ethical 7
Horace Walpole's Mysterious Mother and the Impossibility of Female Desire 23
Abjection, Nationalism and the Gothic 47
The Kitten's Nose: Dracula and Witchcraft 71
Law and the Gothic Imagination 87
The Passion of New Eve and the Cinema: Hysteria, Spectacle, Masquerade 111
Candygothic 133
The Gothic at Our Turn of the Century: Our Culture of Simulation and the Return of the Body 153
Index 181
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