The Gothic Quest A History Of The Gothic Novel

Author : Montague Summers
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781447499084

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The Gothic Quest - A History of the Gothic Novel by Montague Summers Pdf

“The Gothic Quest - A History of the Gothic Novel” is a 1938 treatise by Montague Summers on the subject of the Gothic novel, looking at its origins, evolution, and role in contemporary literature. Augustus Montague Summers (1880 – 1948) was an English clergyman and author most famous for his studies on vampires, witches and werewolves—all of which he believed to be very much real. He also wrote the first English translation of the infamous 15th-century witch hunter's manual, the “Malleus Maleficarum”, in 1928. Contents include: “The Romantic Feeling”, “Notes to Chapter I”, “The Publishers and the Circulating Libraries”, “Notes to Chapter II”, “Influences from Abroad”, “Notes to Chapter III”, “Historical Gothic”, “Notes to Chapters IV”, “Matthew Gregory Lewis”, etc. Other notable works by this author include: “A Popular History of Witchcraft” (1937), “Witchcraft and Black Magic” (1946), and “The Physical Phenomena of Mysticism” (1947). Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1900
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:477354160

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The Gothic Quest by Anonim Pdf

Author : Montague Summers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:243907083

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The Gothic Quest by Montague Summers Pdf

Author : Montague Summers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:249822550

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The Gothic Quest by Montague Summers Pdf

Author : Markman Ellis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0748611959

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The History of Gothic Fiction by Markman Ellis Pdf

"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 recent 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 an up-to-date bibliography, this will be an ideal text for all those with an interest in the Gothic."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Devendra P. Varma
Publisher : Russell & Russell Publishers
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015020683465

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The Gothic Flame by Devendra P. Varma Pdf

Author : M. Summers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1972-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0849002540

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Gothic Quest by M. Summers Pdf

Author : Carol Margaret Davison
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780708322611

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History of the Gothic: Gothic Literature 1764-1824 by Carol Margaret Davison Pdf

Offers an introduction to British Gothic literature. This book examines works by Gothic authors such as Horace Walpole, Matthew Lewis, Ann Radcliffe, William Godwin and Mary Shelley against the backdrop of eighteenth-and-nineteenth-century British social and political history.

Author : Jarlath Killeen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Children in literature
ISBN : IND:30000126982291

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History of the Gothic by Jarlath Killeen Pdf

This volume in this exciting new series provides a detailed yet accessible study of Gothic literature in the nineteenth century. It examines how themes and trends associated with the early Gothic novels were diffused widely in many different genres in the Victorian period, including the ghost story, the detective story and the adventure story.

Author : Brendan Hennessy
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015016878145

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The Gothic Novel by Brendan Hennessy Pdf

A volume in the Writers and Their Work series, which draws upon recent thinking in English studies to introduce writers and their contexts. Each volume includes biographical material, an examination of recent criticism, a bibliography and a reappraisal of a major work by the writer.

Author : Tyler R. Tichelaar
Publisher : Modern History Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781615991389

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The Gothic Wanderer by Tyler R. Tichelaar Pdf

The Gothic Wanderer Rises Eternal in Popular Literature From the horrors of sixteenth century Italian castles to twenty-first century plagues, from the French Revolution to the liberation of Libya, Tyler R. Tichelaar takes readers on far more than a journey through literary history. The Gothic Wanderer is an exploration of man's deepest fears, his eff orts to rise above them for the last two centuries, and how he may be on the brink finally of succeeding. Tichelaar examines the figure of the Gothic wanderer in such well-known Gothic novels as "The Mysteries of Udolpho," "Frankenstein," and "Dracula," as well as lesser known works like Fanny Burney's "The Wanderer," Mary Shelley's "The Last Man," and Edward Bulwer-Lytton's "Zanoni." He also finds surprising Gothic elements in classics like Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities" and Edgar Rice Burroughs' "Tarzan of the Apes." From Matthew Lewis' "The Monk" to Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight," Tichelaar explores a literary tradition whose characters refl ect our greatest fears and deepest hopes. Readers will find here the revelation that not only are we all Gothic wanderers--but we are so only by our own choosing. Acclaim for "The Gothic Wanderer" ""The Gothic Wanderer" shows us the importance of its title figure in helping us to see our own imperfections and our own sometimes contradictory yearnings to be both unique and yet a part of a society. The reader is in for an insightful treat." --Diana DeLuca, Ph.D. and author of Extraordinary Things "Make no mistake about it, The Gothic Wanderer is an important, well researched and comprehensive treatise on some of the world's finest literature." --Michael Willey, author of Ojisan Zanoni Foreword by Marie Mulvey-Roberts, Ph.D. Learn more at www.GothicWanderer.com From Modern History Press www.ModernHistoryPress.com Literary Criticism: Gothing & Romance Literary Criticism: European - General

Author : L. Piatti-Farnell,M. Beville
Publisher : Springer
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137406644

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The Gothic and the Everyday by L. Piatti-Farnell,M. Beville Pdf

The Gothic and the Everyday aims to regenerate interest in the Gothic within the experiential contexts of history, folklore, and tradition. By using the term 'living', this book recalls a collection of experiences that constructs the everyday in its social, cultural, and imaginary incarnations

Author : William Hughes
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780810872288

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Historical Dictionary of Gothic Literature by William Hughes Pdf

Provides an extensive chronology and an introduction which explains the nature of Gothic and shows how it has evolved. Includes entries on major writers, and works of geographical variants like Irish, Scottish or Russian Gothic and Female Gothic, Queer Gothic and Science Fiction.

Author : Bridget M. Marshall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317013723

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The Transatlantic Gothic Novel and the Law, 1790–1860 by Bridget M. Marshall Pdf

Tracing the use of legal themes in the gothic novel, Bridget M. Marshall shows these devices reflect an outpouring of anxiety about the nature of justice. On both sides of the Atlantic, novelists like William Godwin, Mary Shelley, Charles Brockden Brown, and Hannah Crafts question the foundations of the Anglo-American justice system through their portrayals of criminal and judicial procedures and their use of found documents and legal forms as key plot devices. As gothic villains, from Walpole's Manfred to Godwin's Tyrrell to Stoker's Dracula, manipulate the law and legal system to expand their power, readers are confronted with a legal system that is not merely ineffective at stopping villains but actually enables them to inflict ever greater harm on their victims. By invoking actual laws like the Black Act in England or the Fugitive Slave Act in America, gothic novels connect the fantastic horrors that constitute their primary appeal with much more shocking examples of terror and injustice. Finally, the gothic novel's preoccupation with injustice is just one element of many that connects the genre to slave narratives and to the horrors of American slavery.

Author : Jerrold E. Hogle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2002-08-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521794668

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The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction by Jerrold E. Hogle Pdf

Gothic as a form of fiction-making has played a major role in Western culture since the late eighteenth century. Here fourteen world-class experts on the Gothic provide thorough and revealing accounts of this haunting-to-horrifying type of fiction from the 1760s (the decade of The Castle of Otranto, the first so-called Gothic story ) to the end of the twentieth century (an era haunted by filmed and computerized Gothic simulations). Along the way, these essays explore the connections of Gothic fictions to political and industrial revolutions, the realistic novel, the theatre, Romantic and post-Romantic poetry, nationalism and racism from Europe to America, colonized and post-colonial populations, the rise of film and other visual technologies, the struggles between high and popular culture, changing psychological attitudes towards human identity, gender and sexuality, and the obscure lines between life and death, sanity and madness. The volume also includes a chronology and guides to further reading.