The Cambridge History of the Gothic 3 Volume Hardback Set
Three-volume set

This series offers a comprehensive history of the Gothic, from its earliest manifestations in European history to the present day.

Angela Wright (Edited by), Dale Townshend (Edited by), Catherine Spooner (Edited by)

9781108662017, Cambridge University Press

Multiple-component retail product, published 21 October 2021

1800 pages
24.7 x 23.4 x 10.6 cm, 3.18 kg

How to write the history of a cultural mode that, for all its abiding fascination with the past, has challenged and complicated received notions of history from the very start? The Cambridge History of the Gothic rises to this challenge, charting the history of the Gothic even as it reflects continuously upon the mode's tendency to question, subvert and render incomplete all linear historical narratives. Taken together, the three chronologically sequenced volumes in the series provide a rigorous account of the origins, efflorescence and proliferation of the Gothic imagination, from its earliest manifestations in European history through to the present day. Written by an international cast of contributors, the chapters bring fresh scholarly attention to bear upon established Gothic themes while also drawing attention to new critical concerns. As such, they are of relevance to the general reader, the student and the established scholar alike.

Volume 1. Gothic in the Long Eighteenth Century: Introduction: the gothic in/and history
1. The Goths in ancient history
2. The term 'gothic' in the Long Eighteenth Century, 1680?1800
3. The literary gothic before Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto
4. Gothic revival architecture before Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill
5. Horace Walpole and the gothic
6. Shakespeare's gothic transmigrations
7. Reassessing the gothic / classical relationship
8. 'A world of bad spirits': the terrors of eighteenth-century empire
9. In their blood: the eighteenth-century gothic stage
10. Domestic gothic writing after Horace Walpole and before Ann Radcliffe
11. Early British gothic and the American Revolution
12. Gothic and the French Revolution, 1789–1804
13. The aesthetics of terror and horror: a genealogy
14. Ann Radcliffe and Matthew Lewis
15. The gothic novel beyond Radcliffe and Lewis
16. Oriental gothic: imperial-commercial nightmares from the eighteenth century to the Romantic period
17. The German 'school' of horrors: a pharmacology of the gothic
18. Gothic and the history of sexuality
19. Gothic art and gothic culture in the Romantic era
20. Time in the gothic
Volume 2. Gothic in the Nineteenth Century
Introduction
1. Gothic romanticism and the summer of 1816
2. Fantasmagoriana: The cosmopolitan gothic and Frankenstein
3. The mutation of the vampire in nineteenth-century gothic
4. From romantic gothic to Victorian medievalism: 1817 and 1877
5. Nineteenth-century gothic architectural aesthetics: A. W. N. Pugin, John Ruskin and William Morris
6. Gothic fiction, from shilling shockers to penny bloods
7. The theatrical gothic in the nineteenth century
8. 'Specterology': gothic showmanship in nineteenth-century popular shows and media
9. The gothic in Victorian poetry
10. The genesis of the Victorian ghost story
11. Charles dickens and the gothic
12. Victorian domestic gothic fiction
13. The gothic in nineteenth-century Spain
14. The gothic in nineteenth-century Italy
15. The gothic in nineteenth-century Scotland
16. The gothic in nineteenth-century Ireland
17. The gothic in nineteenth-century America
18. Nineteenth-century British and American gothic and the history of slavery
19. Genealogies of monstrosity: Darwin, the biology of crime and nineteenth-century British gothic literature
20. Gothic and the coming of the railways
21. Gothic imperialism at the fin de siècle
Volume 3. Gothic in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
Introduction: A history of gothic studies in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
1. Gothic and silent cinema
2. Gothic, the great war and the rise of modernism, 1910?1936
3. Gothic and the American south, 1919?1962
4. Hollywood gothic, 1930–1960
5. Gothic and war, 1930–91
6. Gothic and the postcolonial moment
7. Gothic and the heritage movement in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
8. Gothic enchantment: The magical strain in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Anglo-American gothic
9. Psychoanalysis and the American popular gothic, 1954–1980
10. Gothic and the counterculture, 1958?Present
11. Gothic television
12. Gothic and the rise of feminism
13. Gothic, AIDS and sexuality, 1981–present
14. The gothic in the age of neo-liberalism, 1990?present
15. The gothic and remix culture
16. Postdigital gothic
17. Gothic multiculturalism
18. Gothic, neo-imperialism and the war on terror
19. Global gothic 1: Islamic gothic
20. Global gothic 2: East Asian gothic
21. Global gothic 3: Gothic in modern Scandinavia
22. The 'Bad Oikos': Gothic in an age of environmental crisis
23. Gothic and the apocalyptic imagination.

Subject Areas: Cultural studies [JFC], Literary studies: from c 1900 - [DSBH], Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 [DSBF], Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 [DSBD], Literary studies: general [DSB], Theatre studies [AN], History of architecture [AMX], History of art & design styles: from c 1900 - [ACX]