The Literature of Terror: Volume 1
Author | : David Punter |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 2014-05-22 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781317891970 |
ISBN-13 | : 131789197X |
Rating | : 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: The first edition was regarded as the definitive survey of Gothic and related terror writing in English. No other text considers this genre on such a scale and covers the theoretical perspectives so comprehensively. In the latest edition, the broad range of theoretical perspectives has been enlarged to include modern critical theories. Volume One is a thoroughly updated edition of the original text, covering the period from 1765 up to the Edwardian age, exploring the richness and literary diversity of the gothic form: from the original eighteenth-century gothic of Ann Radcliffe to the melodramatic fiction of Wilkie Collins.