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The Gothic novel 1790-1830
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ISBN: 9780813164793 0813164796 0813113970 9780813113975 0813155134 9780813155135 1322600988 0813186684 9780813186689 Year: 1981 Publisher: Lexington The University Press of Kentucky

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A research guide for specialists in the Gothic novel, the Romantic movement, the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novel, and popular culture, this work contains summaries of more than two hundred novels, reputed to be Gothic, published in English between 1790 and 1830. Also included are indexes of titles and characters and an extensive index of characteristic objects, motifs, and themes that recur in the novels -- such as corpses, bloody and otherwise, dungeons, secret passageways, filicide, fratricide, infanticide, matricide, patricide, and suicide.The novels described, including those by s

The gothic sublime
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ISBN: 9780791417485 0791417484 Year: 1994 Publisher: Albany State University of New York Press

Approaches to teaching Gothic fiction : the British and American traditions
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ISBN: 0873529065 0873529073 Year: 2003 Publisher: New York (N.Y.) : Modern language association of America,

Writing horror and the body : the fiction of Stephen King, Clive Barker, and Anne Rice
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ISBN: 0313297169 Year: 1996 Publisher: Westport ; London : Greenwood press,

The literature of terror [1] : a history of gothic fictions from 1765 to the present day. volume 1, the gothic tradition
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ISBN: 0582237149 0582290554 Year: 1996 Publisher: White Plains (NY) : Longman,

Screening the gothic
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ISBN: 0292706464 0292706456 0292796986 Year: 2005 Publisher: Austin, TX : University of Texas Press,

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Filmmakers have long been drawn to the Gothic with its eerie settings and promise of horror lurking beneath the surface. Moreover, the Gothic allows filmmakers to hold a mirror up to their own age and reveal society's deepest fears. Franco Zeffirelli's Jane Eyre, Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula, and Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet are just a few examples of film adaptations of literary Gothic texts. In this ground-breaking study, Lisa Hopkins explores how the Gothic has been deployed in these and other contemporary films and comes to some surprising conclusions. For instance, in a brilliant chapter on films geared to children, Hopkins finds that horror resides not in the trolls, wizards, and goblins that abound in Harry Potter, but in the heart of the family. Screening the Gothic offers a radical new way of understanding the relationship between film and the Gothic as it surveys a wide range of films, many of which have received scant critical attention. Its central claim is that, paradoxically, those texts whose affiliations with the Gothic were the clearest became the least Gothic when filmed. Thus, Hopkins surprises readers by revealing Gothic elements in films such as Sense and Sensibility and Mansfield Park, as well as exploring more obviously Gothic films like The Mummy and The Fellowship of the Ring. Written in an accessible and engaging manner, Screening the Gothic will be of interest to film lovers as well as students and scholars.

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