A Geography of Victorian Gothic Fiction
Mapping History's Nightmares
This is the first major full-length study of Victorian Gothic fiction. Combining original readings of familiar texts with a rich store of historical sources, A Geography of Victorian Gothic Fiction is an historicist survey of nineteenth-century Gothic writing--from Dickens to Stoker, WilkieCollins to Conan Doyle, through European travelogues, sexological textbooks, ecclesiastic histories and pamphlets on the perils of self-abuse. Critics have thus far tended to concentrate on specific angles of Gothic writing (gender or race), or the belief that the Gothic 'returned' at the so-calledfin de siecle. Robert Mighall, by contrast, demonstrates how…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-926218-2
- EAN: 9780199262182
- Produktnummer: 22403708
- Verlag: OUP Oxford
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
- Seitenangabe: 340 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D2.0 cm 455 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 455
Über den Autor
Robert Mighall is an Honorary Research Fellow in English Literature at University College London and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He also held the position of Editor of Penguin Classics. His publications include an edited selection of Oscar Wilde's poetry for Everyman and Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray for Penguin Classics. He currently works as a consultant on corporate identity and communications at Citigate LloydNorthover.
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