A geography of Victorian Gothic fiction : mapping history's nightmares / Robert Mighall
2007, 2nd edition. Oxford : Oxford University Press. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #476539
ISBN: 0198184727
Physical description: xxv, 312 pages : portraits ; 22 cm. Contents: Introduction: Outside in : Gothic criticism and the pull to interiority -- History as nightmare -- From Udolpho to Spitalfields : mapping Gothic London -- Haunted houses I and II -- Atavism : a Darwinian nightmare -- Unspeakable vices : moral monstrosity and representation -- Making a case : vampirism, sexuality, and interpretation -- Postscript: From landscape to dreamscape : redrawing the Gothic map. Subjects: Stoker, Bram 1847-1912 Dracula ; Criticism and interpretation. English fiction 19th century History and criticism. Horror tales, English History and criticism. Gothic revival (Literature) Great Britain. Literature and history Great Britain History 19th century.
Price: €225.00