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

Romantic Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion provides a thorough critical, textual and historical account of the Gothic aesthetic as manifested across a wide range of Romantic-era literary texts, from the adumbrations of the Gothic mode in the proto-Romantic poetry of the 1740s, through to the 'belated' Gothic fictions of the late 1820s. Self-consciously breaching, like Hume and Gamer before it, the critical divide between what literary history has subsequently differentiated as the 'Gothic' and the 'Romantic', this collection of 17 newly commissioned chapters seeks to draw attention to what G. R. Thompson in 1947 termed 'dark Romanticism', that is, that prominent strain in late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century British, American and European literature in which the distinction between the popular, low-cultural reaches of the Gothic and the 'High' Romantic aesthetics of more canonical figures is all but erased. Traces The Gothic Impulses In Proto-romantic And Romantic British, American And European Culture, 1740-1830--back Cover. Gothic And Romantic: An Historical Overview / Dale Townshend And Angela Wright -- Graveyard Writing And The Rise Of The Gothic / Vincent Quinn -- Gothic Romance / Deborah Russell -- The Gothic Stage: Visions Of Instability, Performances Of Anxiety / Diego Saglia -- Gothic Poetry And First-generation Romanticism / Joel Faflak -- Gothic And Second-generation Romanticism: Lord Byron, P.b. Shelley, John Polidori And Mary Shelley / Jerrold E. Hogle -- Political Gothic Fiction / Robert Miles -- Shorter Gothic Fictions: Ballads And Chapbooks, Tales And Fragments / Douglass H. Thomson And Diane Long Hoeveler -- Oriental Gothic / Peter J. Kitson -- Gothic Parody / Natalie Neill -- Gothic Borders: Scotland, Ireland And Wales / Meiko O'halloran -- Gothic Travels / Mark Bennett -- The Romantic And The Gothic In Europe: The Elementary Spirits In France And Germany As A Vehicle For The Transmission And Development Of The Fantastique, 1772-1835 / Victor Sage -- American Gothic Passages / Carol Margaret Davison -- Gothic And The Language Of Terror / Jane Hodson -- Gothic Science / Andrew Smith -- Gender And Sexuality In Gothic Romanticism / Patrick R. O'malley -- Gothic Forms Of Time: Architecture, Romanticism, Medievalism / Tom Duggett -- Gothic Theology / Alison Milbank. Edited By Angela Wright And Dale Townshend. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. 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. 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.