The Palgrave Handbook of Steam Age Gothic
By the early 1830s the old school of Gothic literature was exhausted. Late Romanticism, emphasising as it did the uncertainties of personality and imagination, gave it a new lease of life. Gothic-the literature of disturbance and uncertainty-now produced works that reflected domestic fears, sexual c...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Springer International Publishing
2021.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | Springer eBooks.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b45584989*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- PART ONE: VICTORIAN TRANSFORMATIONS
- Gothic architecture for the steam age: Charles Barrie
- Augustus Pugin and family
- George Gilbert Scott and family
- the rebuilt Houses of Parliament, the restoration of medieval France
- Thomas Lovell Beddoes
- John Ruskin
- the gothic cemetery (Highgate etc) Victor Hugo
- the Brontes; Charles Dickens and the ghost story
- Edith Wharton
- Sheriden le Fanu
- Sabine Baring Gould
- domestic gothic
- melodrama and the gothic
- Egyptian gothic taste
- freaks and raree shows
- Egyptian gothic
- stage magic and the gothic
- real life ghosts and hauntings
- PART TWO: FIN DE SIECLE
- Guy de Maupassant
- gothic music- Wagner and Berlioz
- Robert Louise Stevenson, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
- Ambrose Bierce
- magic lantern gothic
- Conan Doyle gothic
- Jack the Ripper
- the cult of Pan; Arthur Machen
- J K Huysman
- Bram Stoker and Dracula
- end of the century decadence-erotic gothic and occult gothic
- Oscar Wilde and the Picture of Dorian Gray
- Richard Marsh and the Beetle
- H G Wells
- the ghost tales of Edith Wharton
- Isaak Dineson
- Robert W Chambers: the King in Yellow
- Lord Dunsany
- Count Steinbock
- John Buchan
- end of the century ghost tales -minor writers
- bibliography.
