The Cambridge History of the Gothic: Volume 2, Gothic in the Nineteenth Century

This volume provides an interdisciplinary history of the Gothic in nineteenth-century British, American and European culture.

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

9781108472715, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 6 August 2020

558 pages, 14 b/w illus.
23.4 x 16 x 3 cm, 1.02 kg

'One of the great strengths of Townshend and Wright's turn to mode instead of form is that they are able to develop a truly interdisciplinary collection of essays, putting literature, history, art, architecture, and drama into conversation with one another.' Joellen Mary Delucia, Eighteenth-Century Studies

This second volume of The Cambridge History of the Gothic provides a rigorous account of the Gothic in British, American and Continental European culture, from the Romantic period through to the Victorian fin de siècle. Here, leading scholars in the fields of literature, theatre, architecture and the history of science and popular entertainment explore the Gothic in its numerous interdisciplinary forms and guises, as well as across a range of different international contexts. As much a cultural history of the Gothic in this period as an account of the ways in which the Gothic mode has participated in the formative historical events of modernity, the volume offers fresh perspectives on familiar themes while also drawing new critical attention to a range of hitherto overlooked concerns. From Romanticism, to Penny Bloods, Dickens and even the railway system, the volume provides a compelling and comprehensive study of nineteenth-century Gothic culture.

Introduction
1. Gothic romanticism and the summer of 1816 Angela Wright and Madeleine Callaghan
2. Fantasmagoriana: The cosmopolitan gothic and Frankenstein Maximiliaan van Woudenberg
3. The mutation of the vampire in nineteenth-century gothic Jerrold E. Hogle
4. From romantic gothic to Victorian medievalism: 1817 and 1877 Tom Duggett
5. Nineteenth-century gothic architectural aesthetics: A. W. N. Pugin, John Ruskin and William Morris Alexandra Warwick
6. Gothic fiction, from shilling shockers to penny bloods Anthony Mandal
7. The theatrical gothic in the nineteenth century Kelly Jones
8. 'Specterology': gothic showmanship in nineteenth-century popular shows and media Joe Kember
9. The gothic in Victorian poetry Serena Trowbridge
10. The genesis of the Victorian ghost story Scott Brewster
11. Charles dickens and the gothic John Bowen
12. Victorian domestic gothic fiction Tamar Heller
13. The gothic in nineteenth-century Spain Xavier Aldana Reyes and Rocío Rødtjer
14. The gothic in nineteenth-century Italy Francesca Saggini
15. The gothic in nineteenth-century Scotland Suzanne Gilbert
16. The gothic in nineteenth-century Ireland Christina Morin
17. The gothic in nineteenth-century America Charles L. Crow
18. Nineteenth-century British and American gothic and the history of slavery Maisha Wester
19. Genealogies of monstrosity: Darwin, the biology of crime and nineteenth-century British gothic literature Corinna Wagner
20. Gothic and the coming of the railways William Hughes
21. Gothic imperialism at the fin de siècle Andrew Smith.

Subject Areas: History of science [PDX], Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 [DSBF], Literary studies: general [DSB], Theatre studies [AN], History of architecture [AMX]