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Gothic literature --- Gothic literature. --- Tales. --- History and criticism.

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This book explores the paradox that the Gothic (today's werewolves, vampires, and horror movies) owe their origins (and their legitimacy) to eighteenth-century interpretations of Shakespeare. As Shakespeare was being established as the supreme British writer throughout the century, he was cited as justification for early Gothic writers' fascination with the supernatural, their abandoning of literary "decorum," and their fascination with otherness and extremes of every kind. This book addresses the gap for an up to date analysis of Shakespeare's relation to the Gothic. An authority on the Gothi

Gothic literature --- History and criticism. --- Shakespeare, William, --- Criticism and interpretation.

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This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of research on the Gothic Revival. The Gothic Revival was based on emotion rather than reason and when Horace Walpole created Strawberry Hill House, a gleaming white castle on the banks of the Thames, he had to create new words to describe the experience of gothic lifestyle. Nevertheless, Walpole's house produced nightmares and his book The Castle of Otranto was the first truly gothic novel, with supernatural, sensational and Shakespearean elements challenging the emergent fiction of social relationships. The novel's themes of violence, tragedy, death, imprisonment, castle battlements, dungeons, fair maidens, secrets, ghosts and prophecies led to a new genre encompassing prose, theatre, poetry and painting, whilst opening up a whole world of imagination for entrepreneurial female writers such as Mary Shelley, Joanna Baillie and Ann Radcliffe, whose immensely popular books led to the intense inner landscapes of the Bronte sisters. Matthew Lewis's The Monk created a new gothic: atheistic, decadent, perverse, necrophilic and hellish. The social upheaval of the French Revolution and the emergence of the Romantic movement with its more intense (and often) atheistic self-absorption led the gothic into darker corners of human experience with a greater emphasis on the inner life, hallucination, delusion, drug addiction, mental instability, perversion and death and the emerging science of psychology. The intensity of the German experience led to an emphasis on doubles and schizophrenic behaviour, ghosts, spirits, mesmerism, the occult and hell. This volume charts the origins of this major shift in social perceptions and completes a trilogy of Palgrave Handbooks on the Gothic--combined they provide an exhaustive survey of current research in Gothic studies, a go-to for students and researchers alike.

Sociology of culture --- Film --- Gothic --- film --- Gothic fiction (Literary genre) --- Gothic literature. --- Gothic revival (Art) --- History.

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Gothic language --- Gothic literature --- Writing, Gothic --- Gothique (Langue) --- Littérature gothique --- Ecriture gothique

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Irish literature --- Gothic literature --- Supernatural in literature --- Fantasy literature, Irish --- Littérature irlandaise --- Littérature gothique --- Surnaturel dans la littérature --- Fantasy literature, Irish. --- Gothic literature. --- Irish literature. --- Supernatural in literature. --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Ireland.