The Gothic Tradition

By: Adrian Barlow (Editor), John Smart, Pamela Bickley, Ian Brinton, Stephen Siddall

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Paperback | 11 September 2000

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The Gothic Tradition is a new title in the Cambridge Contexts in Literature series. It is designed to support the needs of advanced level students of English literature. Each title in the series has the quality, content and level endorsed by the OCR examination board. However, the texts provide the background and focus suitable for any examination board at advanced level. The series explores the contextual study of texts by concentrating on key periods, topics and comparisons in literature. Each book adopts an interactive approach and provides the background for understanding the significance of literary, historical and social contexts. Students are encouraged to investigate different interpretations that may be applied to literary texts by different readers, through a variety of activities and questions, the use of study aids, such as chronologies and glossaries, and the inclusion of anthology sections to exemplify issues.

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Introduction	p. 5
Approaching the gothic tradition	p. 8
The historical context	p. 8
Gothic influences	p. 10
The political context	p. 15
The spiritual context	p. 18
Gothic literary forms and audiences	p. 22
Gothic writers and readers	p. 28
The contemporary context	p. 31
Contemporary gothic literature	p. 32
The gothic cinema	p. 36
Gothic music	p. 38
Other gothic media	p. 38
Gothic dangers	p. 39
Gothic Whitby	p. 40
Assignments	p. 43
Approaching the texts	p. 46
Textual characteristics of the gothic	p. 46
Gothic fascination for the past	p. 47
The sublime and supernatural in the gothic	p. 49
Gothic psychology	p. 51
Gothic horror	p. 53
Gothic settings	p. 54
Gothic style	p. 56
Assignments	p. 58
Texts and extracts	p. 60
from The Castle of Otranto	p. 60
from Vathek	p. 62
from The Monk	p. 64
from The Italian	p. 70
from 'Christabel'	p. 74
from Frankenstein	p. 76
from Northanger Abbey	p. 77
'La Belle Dame sans Merci'	p. 81
'The Raven'	p. 82
from Wuthering Heights	p. 86
from Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde	p. 87
from Dracula	p. 90
from The Woman in Black	p. 92
Critical approaches	p. 95
The nature of literary criticism	p. 95
Historical survey of critical approaches to the gothic	p. 96
Survey of contemporary critical approaches to the gothic	p. 100
Assignments	p. 110
How to write about the gothic	p. 112
A sense of genre	p. 112
An appreciation of purpose	p. 114
Insights into audience	p. 115
Assignments	p. 117
Resources	p. 120
Chronology	p. 120
Further reading	p. 121
Glossary	p. 126
Index	p. 127
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