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The Gothic imagination : essays in dark romanticism

Title: The Gothic imagination : essays in dark romanticism / edited by G.R. Thompson.
Author: Thompson, Gary Richard, 1937-
Publication: [Pullman] : Washington State University Press, [©1974]

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Description

5 preliminary leaves, 176 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Subject

Genre/Form

Gothic revival (Literature)
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Introduction: Romanticism and the Gothic tradition / G.R. Thompson -- The idea of the numinous in Gothic literature / S.L. Varnado -- Demonic dread: the incubus figure in British literature / Nicolas K. Kiessling -- In the hands of an angry god: religious terror in Gothic fiction / Joel Porte -- The "mysteries" of Edgar Poe: the quest for a monomyth in Gothic literature / Barton Levi St. Armand -- Byron and the metaphysic of self-destruction / John W. Ehrstine -- Exuberant gloom, existential agony, and heroic despair: three varieties of negative romanticism / Robert D. Hume -- From the "last judgment" to Kafka's world: a study in Gothic iconography / Virginia M. Hyde -- English Gothic and the french imagination: a calendar of translations, 1767-1828 / Maurice Lévy.

LCCN

74186329

OCLC

ocm01094410
1094410
SCSB-119324

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library