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

Catherine Spooner, Dale Townshend, Angela Wright

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN:
  9781108472715
• eBook ISBN:
  9781108642378
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: English Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title page
• Series page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Notes on Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: Gothic in the Nineteenth Century, 1800–1900
• 2.1 Gothic Romanticism and the Summer of 1816
• 2.2 Fantasmagoriana: The Cosmopolitan Gothic and Frankenstein
• 2.3 The Mutation of the Vampire in Nineteenth-Century Gothic
• 2.4 From Romantic Gothic to Victorian Medievalism: 1817 and 1877
• 2.5 Nineteenth-Century Gothic Architectural Aesthetics: A. W. N. Pugin, John Ruskin and William Morris
• 2.6 Gothic Fiction, from Shilling Shockers to Penny Bloods
• 2.7 The Theatrical Gothic in the Nineteenth Century
• 2.8 ‘Spectrology’: Gothic Showmanship in Nineteenth-Century Popular Shows and Media
• 2.9 The Gothic in Victorian Poetry
• 2.10 The Genesis of the Victorian Ghost Story
• 2.11 Charles Dickens and the Gothic
• 2.12 Victorian Domestic Gothic Fiction
• 2.13 The Gothic in Nineteenth-Century Spain
• 2.14 The Gothic in Nineteenth-Century Italy
• 2.15 The Gothic in Nineteenth-Century Scotland
• 2.16 The Gothic in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
• 2.17 The Gothic in Nineteenth-Century America
• 2.18 Nineteenth-Century British and American Gothic and the History of Slavery
• 2.19 Genealogies of Monstrosity: Darwin, the Biology of Crime and Nineteenth-Century British Gothic Literature
• 2.20 Gothic and the Coming of the Railways
• 2.21 Gothic Imperialism at the Fin de siècle
• Select Bibliography
• Index