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Gothic Writers A Critical and Bibliographical Guide
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Douglass H. Thomson, ed., Jack G. Voller, ed., Frederick S. Frank, ed.
ISBN: 0-313-30500-5
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-30500-9
544 pages
Greenwood Press
Publication: 11/30/2001
List Price: $131.95 (UK Sterling Price: £91.95)
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Media Type: Hardcover
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Description: With its roots in Romanticism, antiquarianism, and the primacy of the imagination, the Gothic genre originated in the 18th century, flourished in the 19th, and continues to thrive today. This reference is designed to accommodate the critical and bibliographical needs of a broad spectrum of users, from scholars seeking critical assistance to general readers wanting an introduction to the Gothic, its abundant criticism, and the present state of Gothic Studies. The volume includes alphabetically arranged entries on more than 50 Gothic writers from Horace Walpole to Stephen King. Entries for Russian, Japanese, French, and German writers give an international scope to the book, while the focus on English and American literature shows the dynamic nature of Gothicism today.

Each of the entries is devoted to a particular author or group of authors whose works exhibit Gothic elements, beginning with a primary bibliography of works by the writer, including modern editions. This section is followed by a critical essay, which examines the author's use of Gothic themes, the author's place in the Gothic tradition, and the critical reception of the author's works. The entries close with selected, annotated bibliographies of scholarly studies. The volume concludes with a timeline and a bibliography of the most important broad scholarly works on the Gothic.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
    Introduction
    Dr. John Aikin and Anna Laetitia Aikin Barbauld by Douglass H. Thomson
    William Harrison Ainsworth by Jack G. Voller
    Ueda Akinari by Frederick S. Frank
    Gertrude Atherton by Jack G. Voller
    Margaret Atwood by Carol Davison
    Jane Austen and the Northanger Novelists (Lawrence Flammenberg,Carl Grosse, Francis Lathom, Eliza Parsons, Regina Maria Roche, Eleanor Sleath) by Douglass H. Thomson and Frederick S. Frank
    François Thomas Marie de Baculard d'Arnaud by Frederick S. Frank
    William Beckford by Jack G. Voller
    Ambrose Gwinett Bierce by Douglass H. Thomson
    Charlotte Brontë and Emily Brontë by Douglass H. Thomsom
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton by Marie Mulvey-Roberts
    Wilkie Collins by Frederick S. Frank
    Charlotte Darce by Douglass H. Thomson
    Charles Dickens by Douglass H. Thomson
    Guillaume Ducray Duminil by Frederick S. Frank
    Mary Wilkins Freeman by Jack G. Voller
    William Godwin by Douglass H. Thomson
    Gothic Chapbooks, Bluebooks and Short Stories in the Magazines by Frederick S. Frank
    Gothic Drama by Frederick S. Frank
    Nathaniel Hawthorne by Frederick S. Frank
    E.T.A. Hoffman by Douglass H. Thomson
    James Hogg by Douglass H. Thomson
    Washington Irving by Jack G. Voller
    Henry James by Douglass H. Thomson
    Stephen King by Tony Magistrale
    Izumi Kyoka by Frederick S. Frank
    D.H. Lawrence by John Humma
    Sophia Lee by Douglass H. Thomson
    Joseph Sheridan LeFanu by Jack G. Voller
    Matthew Gregory "Monk" Lewis by Jack G. Voller
    George Lippard by Frederick S. Frank
    H.P. Lovecraft by S. T. Joshi
    Arthur Machen by Jack G. Voller
    Charles Robert Maturin by Jack G. Voller
    Herman Melville by Douglass H. Thomson
    Toni Morrison by David Dudley
    Flannery O'Connor by Douglass H. Thomson
    Joyce Carol Oates by Susan Allen Ford
    Vladimir Odoevsky by Frederick S. Frank
    Edgar Allan Poe by Frederick S. Frank
    John Polidori by Douglass H. Thomson
    Ann Radcliffe by Frederick S. Frank
    Clara Reeve by Jack G. Voller
    Marquis de Sade by Douglass H. Thomson
    Friedrich Schiller by Tom Lloyd
    Sir Walter Scott by Michael Gamer
    Mary Wollstonecraft by Marie Mulvey-Roberts
    Percy Bysshe Shelley by Jack G. Voller and Douglass Thomson
    Charlotte Smith by Jack G. Voller
    Robert Louis Stevenson by Douglass H. Thomson
    Bram Stoker by Jack G. Voller
    Ludwig Tieck by Tom Lloyd
    Horace Walpole by Frederick S. Frank
    The Gothic Timeline: 1762-2000
    General Bibliography of Critical Sources and Resources
    Authors/Titles Index
    Critics Index
    Subject/Theme/Motif Index
About the Author: DOUGLASS H. THOMSON is Associate Professor of English at Georgia Southern University. He is the author of essays on English Romanticism and the novel.

JACK G. VOLLER is Associate Professor of English at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville. His publications include The Supernatural Sublime: The Metaphysics of Terror in Anglo-American Romanticism (1994), along with articles on Poe, William Gibson, and funerary semiotics.

FREDERICK S. FRANK is Professor Emeritus of English at Allegheny College. He is the coeditor of The Poe Encyclopedia (1997) and the author of Through the Pale Door: A Guide to and through the American Gothic (1990), both available from Greenwood Press.
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