Le Gothic: Influences and Appropriations in Europe and America - Hardcover

Horner, Avril

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0230517641 ISBN 13: 9780230517646

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008

Synopsis

This new collection of essays by major scholars in the field looks at the ways in which cross-fertilization has taken place in Gothic writing from France, Germany, Britain and America over the last 200 years, and argues that Gothic writing reflects international exchanges in theme and form.

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About the Author:

LINNIE BLAKE is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK CAROL MARGARET DAVISON is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Windsor, Canada KATHY JUSTICE GENTILE is Director of the Institute for Women's and Gender Studies and teaches courses in Gothic fiction at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, USA JERROLD E. HOGLE is Professor of English, University Distinguished Professor, and Vice Provost for Instruction at the University of Arizona, USA WILLIAM HUGHES is Professor of Gothic Studies at Bath Spa University, UK RAPHAEL INGELBIEN is a Lecturer in Literary Studies at the University of Leuven, Belgium ALISON MILBANK lectures in Literature and Theology at the University of Nottingham, UK REBECCA MUNFORD is a Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Cardiff, UK BARRY MURNANE is an independent scholar DAVID PUNTER is Professor of English and Research Dean of Arts at the University of Bristol, UK ANDREW SMITH is Professor of English Studies at the University of Glamorgan, UK MARIA VARA is a doctoral candidate in the School of English, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece, where she teaches courses in writing and fiction ANGELA WRIGHT lectures in Romantic and Gothic Literature at the University of Sheffield, UK

Review:

'Le Gothic makes essential reading for both comparativists and scholars of the genre.' Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0230517641
• ISBN 13: 9780230517646
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 262
• Editor: Zlosnik S.