This guide provides an overview of the most significant issues and debates in Gothic studies. The guide is divided into four parts: bull; bull;The opening section explains the origins and development of the term ls"Gothicrs", considers the particular features of the Gothic within specific periods, and explores its evolution in both literary and non-literary forms, such as art, architecture and film. bull;The following section contains extended entries on major writers of the Gothic, pointing to the most significant features of their work. bull;The third section features authoritative readings of key works, ranging from Horace Walpolers"s The Castle of Otranto to Bret Easton Ellisrs"s American Psycho. bull;Finally, the text considers recurrent concerns of the Gothic such as persecution and paranoia, key motifs such as the haunted castle, and figures such as the vampire and the monster. Supplementary material includes a chronology of key Gothic texts, listing literature and film from 1757 to 2000, and a comprehensive guide to further reading.

David Punter is Professor of English at the University of Bristol. He has previously taught at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and at Fudan University in Shanghai, among other institutions. His recent publications include Postcolonial Imaginings (2000), Writing the Passions (2000), Gothic Pathologies (1998), and The Literature of Terror (2 vols., 1996). He has also published four volumes of poetry.Glennis Byron is Reader in English Studies at the University of Stirling. She has also taught at the University of Alberta in Canada. Her previous publications include Dramatic Monologue (2003), Letitia Landon: The Woman Behind L.E.L (1995), and Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the Poetry of Love (1989).

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Chronology

xi

Introduction

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Backgrounds and Contexts

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Civilization and the Goths

3

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Gothic in the Eighteenth Century

7

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Gothic and Romantic

13

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Science, Industry and the Gothic

20

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Victorian Gothic

26

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Art and Architecture

32

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Gothic and Decadence

39

(5)

Imperial Gothic

44

(6)

Gothic Postmodernism

50

(4)

Postcolonial Gothic

54

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Goths and Gothic Subcultures

59

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Gothic Film

65

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Gothic and the Graphic Novel

71

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Writers of Gothic

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William Harrison Ainsworth (1805-1882)

79

(1)

Jane Austen (1775-1817)

80

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J.G. Ballard (1930-)

82

(1)

Iain Banks (1954-)

83

(1)

John Banville (1945-)

84

(1)

Clive Barker (1952-)

85

(2)

William Beckford (1760-1844)

87

(1)

E.F. Benson (1867-1940)

88

(1)

Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

89

(1)

Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951)

90

(1)

Robert Bloch (1917-1994)

91

(1)

Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973)

92

(2)

Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835-1915)

94

(1)

Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855) and Emily Brontë (1818-1848)

95

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Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810)

97

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Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)

98

(1)

James Branch Cabell (1879-1958)

99

(1)

Ramsey Campbell (1946-)

100

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Angela Carter (1940-1992)

101

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Robert W. Chambers (1865-1933)

103

(1)

Wilkie Collins (1824-1889)

104

(1)

Marie Corelli (1855-1924)

105

(1)

Charlotte Dacre (1771/1772?-1825)

106

(2)

Walter de la Marc (1873-1956)

108

(1)

August Derkth (1909-1971)

109

(1)

Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

110

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'Isak Dinesen' (1885-1962)

111

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Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)

113

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Lord Dunsany (1878-1957)

114

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Bret Easton Ellis (1964-)

115

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William Faulkner (1897-1962)

116

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Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865)

118

(1)

William Gibson (1948-)

119

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William Godwin (1756-1836)

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H. Rider Haggard (1856-1925)

121

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Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)

123

(1)

James Herbert (1943-)

124

(1)

William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918)

125

(2)

E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822)

127

(1)

James Hogg (1770-1835)

128

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Washington Irving (1783-1859)

129

(1)

G.P.R. James (1799-1860)

130

(1)

Henry James (1843-1916)

131

(1)

M.R. James (1862-1936)

132

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Stephen King (1947-)

134

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Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

135

(1)

Francis Lathom (1777-1832)

136

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J. Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873)

137

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Sophia Lee (1750-1824)

138

(2)

Vernon Lee (1856-1935)

140

(1)

M.G. Lewis (1775-1818)

141

(1)

David Lindsay (1878-1945)

142

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H.P. Lovecraft (1890-1937)

143

(1)

George MacDonald (1824-1905)

144

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Arthur Machen (1863-1947)

146

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James Macpherson (1736-1796)

147

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Richard Matheson (1926-)

148

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Charles Robert Maturin (1780-1824)

149

(1)

Merman Melville (1819-1891)

150

(2)

Joyce Carol Oates (1938-)

152

(1)

Margaret Oliphant (1828-1897)

153

(1)

Mervyn Peake (1911-1968)

154

(1)

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)

155

(2)

John Polldori (1795-1821)

157

(1)

Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823)

158

(1)

Clara Reeve (1729-1807)

159

(1)

G.W.M. Reynolds (1814-1879)

160

(2)

Anne Rice (1941-)

162

(1)

Walter Scott (1771-1832)

163

(1)

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851)

164

(1)

Charlotte Smith (1740-1806)

165

(1)

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)

166

(1)

Bram Stoker (1847-1912)

167

(2)

Horace Walpole (1717-1797)

169

(1)

H.G. Wells (1866-1946)

170

(1)

Edith Wharton (1862-1937)

171

(1)

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

172

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Key Works

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Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto (1764)

177

(4)

William Beckford, Vesthek (1786)

181

(4)

Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794)

185

(5)

William Godwin, Caleb Williams (1794)

190

(4)

M.G. Lewis, The Monk (1796)

194

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein (1818, revised 1831)

198

(5)

Charles Robert Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer (1820)

203

(5)

James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824)

208

(4)

Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights (1847)

212

(5)

Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White (1860)

217

(5)

J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Uncle Silas (1864)

222

(4)

Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)

226

(4)

Bram Stoker, Dracula (1897)

230

(5)

Henry James, The Turn of the Screw (1898)

235

(5)

Robert Bloch, Psycho (1959)

240

(4)

Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire (1976)

244

(4)

Stephen King, The Shining (1977)

248

(5)

Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho (1991)

253

(4)

Themes and Topics

257

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The Haunted Castle

259

(4)

The Monster

263

(5)

The Vampire

268

(5)

Persecution and Paranoia

273

(5)

Female Gothic

278

(5)

The Uncanny

283

(5)

The History of Abuse

288

(5)

Hallucination and the Narcotic

293

(5)

Guide to Further Reading

298

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Index

305

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