Research Catalog

Title

The gothic reader : a critical anthology / edited by Martin Myrone.

Publication

London : Tate Publishing ; New York : In the United States and Canada, distributed by Harry N. Abrams, 2006.

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Additional Authors

• Myrone, Martin
• Frayling, Christopher.

Description

320 p. : ill., ports.; 24 cm.

Summary

The Gothic Reader brings together texts and images from the origins of Gothic art and writing up to the 20th century. It is the first publication to present the Gothic through both the visual arts and literature, helping to establish a new framework for its analysis and appreciation. Writers represented include Ann Radcliffe, Mary Shelley, and Horace Walpole; artists include William Blake, Henry Fuseli, and J.M.W. Turner. The anthology encompasses novels, essays and criticism, letters and memoirs, and pieces from contemporary newspapers and magazines, in an engaging, stimulating book for the general reader.

Subject

• Art, Gothic > History
• Gothic literature > History and criticism

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History

Note

• "Consultant editor, Christopher Frayling"--Cover, p. 1.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• A horrifying Oriental tale -- Horrid imprisonments -- The castle of Otranto -- Vathek -- The nightmare -- The French Revolution -- Ann Radcliffe -- The monk -- Gothic poems -- Frankenstein -- Melmoth the wanderer -- The raven -- Dracula -- The traditional functions of ghost stories -- New aesthetic frameworks for horror and fantasy -- The sublime -- Gothic romance -- Henry Fuseli's ghostly horror -- Mary Shelley and Sir Walter Scott on the subject of the supernatural -- Poe on the imagination -- Gothic curiosities -- The nightmare touch -- Psychological perspectives -- M.R. James on the supernatural -- H.P. Lovecraft on cosmic horror -- The case against the Gothic -- Gothic meditations.
• The case for Gothic: relativist perspectives -- The possibilities of the sublime -- The picturesque -- William Blake -- John Carter -- Gothic taste -- Gothic horror -- Horace Walpole on the writing of the castle of Otranto -- Beckford's fantastic artist -- Henry Fuseli: hobgoblin painter -- William Blake: the visionary artist -- The writing of Frankenstein: Mary Shelley's account -- Suspiria de profundis -- Poe's fantastic artist -- The tragic case of Richard Dadd -- H.P. Lovecraft's cosmic artist -- The moral dangers of traditional ghost stories -- The castle of Otranto criticized -- The controversy of the 1790s -- Henry Fuseli and William Blake -- New reading habits: Austen and Peacock -- Modern reticence: Bram Stoker and M.R. James.

ISBN

• 9781854375995 (pbk.)
• 1854375997 (pbk.)
• 1845375998
• 9781845375997
• 9781845375995 (pbk.) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

9781845375995

OCLC

67370284

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library