Botting Fred. Gothic

New York; London: Routledge, 2005. — vii, 128 p. — (The New Critical Idiom). — ISBN 0-415-13229-0, 0-415-09219-1.This enduringly popular book has become a classic in the expanding and increasingly popular field of Gothic Studies. This long awaited new edition contains a new chapter on ‘Contemporary Gothic’, an expanded section on American Gothic and more discussion of the gothic in women’s film and writing throughout the book. It is also updated in relation to media and technology with further discussion of stage sensations and photography as well as engaging with all major texts and criticism since initial publication in 1995.
With the added benefit of series features such as a glossary and annotated further reading section, this remains the ideal guide to the Gothic.Series Editor's Preface.
Introduction: Gothic Excess and Transgression.
Excess.
Transgression.
Diffusion.
Criticism.
Gothic Origins.
Romance and Novel.
Ruins, Graveyards and the Poetry of the Past.
The Sublime.
Gothic Forms.
The Castle of Otranto.
Early Revisions.
Gothic Writing in the 1790s.
Ann Radcliffe.
Terror Narratives.
Horror.
Labyrinths of Literature and Politics.
Romantic Transformations.
Persecutory Romance.
Romantic Heroes.
Wanderers and Doubles.
Homely Gothic.
American Gothic: Brown, Hawthorne, Poe.
Cities, Homes and Ghosts.
Sins of the Father.
Gothic Returns in the 1890s.
Science, Crime and Desire.
Vampires.
Twentieth-Century Gothic.
Modern Gothic Writing.
Science Fiction and Film.
Postmodern Gothic.
The End of Gothic.
Select Bibliography.