Romantic Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion (Edinburgh Companions to the Gothic) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0748696741 ISBN 13: 9780748696741

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2015

Synopsis

Though once conceived of as mutually exclusive categories, Romanticism and the Gothic share a long and complex history of reaction and interaction, avowal and disavowal, influence and exchange. Extending recent critical interrogations of the Gothic / Romantic divide, this collection of essays provides a thorough overview of the manifestly Gothic impulses in Romantic-era literary culture, from the graveyard verse of the 1740s, through the heady politics of the later eighteenth century, and into the writings of the second-generation Romantic poets. Divided into three sections - Gothic Modes and Forms'; 'National and International Borders'; and 'Reading the Romantic Gothic' ? the volume comprises 18 original essays and a detailed introductory essay by an international cast of new and established scholars in the field. As much an introduction to Gothic writing of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries as it is a contribution to scholarly debates concerning the relationship between the Gothic and the Romantic, Romantic Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion is an indispensable resource for both students and scholars of British, American and European literary culture in the period 1740?1830.

About this title

About the Author:

Angela Wright is Senior Lecturer in Romantic Literature at the University of Sheffield. She is the editor of 'Eighteenth-century Gothic', a special issue of Gothic Studies (14/1, May 2012), the author of Gothic Fiction (Palgrave, 2007) and Britain, France and the Gothic, 1764-1820: The Import of Terror (Cambridge University Press, 2013). She is the co-editor of Ann Radcliffe, Romanticism and the Gothic (with Dale Townshend, forthcoming from Cambridge University Press, 2014), and is currently completing a study of Mary Shelley for the University of Wales Press.
Dale Townshend is Senior Lecturer in Gothic and Romantic Literature at the University of Stirling. His publications include The Orders of Gothic (AMS, 2007); four volumes in the Gothic: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies series (co-edited with Fred Botting, Routledge, 2004); and Gothic Shakespeares (co-edited with John Drakakis, Rotuledge, 2008). Current projects include The Gothic World (co-edited with Glennis Byron, forthcoming from Routledge, 2013), and Ann Radcliffe, Romanticism and the Gothic (co-edited with Angela Wright, forthcoming from Cambridge University Press, 2014).

Review:

...a remarkable contribution to its field. -- Lisa Fischer, Review 19

About this edition

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0748696741
• ISBN 13: 9780748696741
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272
• Editor: Wright Angela, Townshend Dale