{"product_id":"the-history-of-gothic-fiction-9780748611959","title":"The History of Gothic Fiction","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe History of Gothic Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e debates the rise of the genre from its origins in the late eighteenth-century novel through nineteenth-century fictions of tyrants, monsters, conspirators and vampires to the twentieth-century zombie film.Approaching key novels by authors such as Walpole (\u003ci\u003eThe Castle of Otranto\u003c\/i\u003e), Radcliffe (\u003ci\u003eThe Romance of the Forest\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Mysteries of Udolpho\u003c\/i\u003e), Austen (\u003ci\u003eNorthanger Abbey\u003c\/i\u003e), Wollstonecraft (\u003ci\u003eThe Wrongs of Woman\u003c\/i\u003e), Lewis (\u003ci\u003eThe Monk\u003c\/i\u003e), Shelley (\u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/i\u003e), Stoker (\u003ci\u003eDracula\u003c\/i\u003e) and Halperin (\u003ci\u003eWhite Zombie\u003c\/i\u003e), the argument proceeds on historicist principles, analysing the peculiar tone of these fictions and uncovering themes of credulity and reason, secrecy and enlightenment, tyranny and libertinism, sexuality and gender, race and miscegenation. The final chapters on the vampire and the zombie examine how the un-dead of gothic terror are embedded in an argument from history.Written with an undergraduate audience in mind, this text offers a synthesis of the main topics of Gothic interest and clearly argued summaries of critical debate. It signals its difference from popular psychoanalytic readings of Gothic and argues instead for a more complex, multilayered approach via an historicist reading of Gothic fiction. Illustrated with ten black and white plates and including up-to-date bibliographies, this will be an ideal text for all those with an interest in the Gothic.Key Features: * written with an undergraduate audience in mind* covers topics such as vampires, zombies, tyrants, banditti and demon-lovers* offers clearly argued summaries of critical debat\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Markman Ellis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/28\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.57d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780748611959\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarkman Ellis is Senior Lecturer in the School of English and Drama at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Edinburgh University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40389458788467,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":71.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_2e23a243-58db-4649-b868-41bfd798c51a.jpg?v=1661607754","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/the-history-of-gothic-fiction-9780748611959","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}