Terror & Wonder: The Gothic Imagination - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0712357912 ISBN 13: 9780712357913

Publisher: British Library Publishing, 2014

Synopsis

The gothic imagination, that dark predilection for horrors and terrors, specters and sprites, occupies a prominent place in contemporary Western culture. First given fictional expression in Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto in 1764, the gothic mode has continued to haunt literature, fine art, music, film, and fashion ever since its heyday in Britain in the 1790s. Terror and Wonder, which accompanies a major exhibition at the British Library, is a collection of essays that trace the numerous meanings and manifestations of the Gothic across time, tracking its prominent shifts and mutations from its eighteenth-century origins, through the Victorian period, and into the present day.  
           
Edited and introduced by Dale Townshend, and consisting of original contributions by Nick Groom, Angela Wright, Alexandra Warwick, Andrew Smith, Lucie Armitt, and Catherine Spooner, Terror and Wonder provides a compelling and comprehensive overview of the gothic imagination over the past 250 years.

About this title

About the Author:

Dale Townshend is a senior lecturer in gothic and romantic literature at the University of Stirling, Scotland. He is the coeditor, with Glennis Byron, of The Gothic World, and, with Angela Wright, of Ann Radcliffe, Romanticism and the Gothic.

Review:

"This comprehensive, well written and lavishly illustrated book offers considerable insight into the ‘Gothic imagination’ and its appeal over many generations. . . . This book will appeal to a wide range of people ranging from fans of the Gothic genre to those who seek to understand the historic progression of one of the most fascinating genres in literature." (London Visitors)

About this edition

• Publisher: British Library Publishing
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0712357912
• ISBN 13: 9780712357913
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: Townshend Dale