The Palgrave Handbook of Gothic Origins 1st ed.

Author

Additional Author(s)

• Bloom, Clive

Publisher

Cham, Switzerland : Springer International Publishing, 2021

Language

English

ISBN

9783030845629

Series

Subject(s)

• GOTHIC FICTION (LITERARY GENRE)
• GOTHIC LITERATURE

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Abstract

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.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

1 online resource (xvi, 618 p.)

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Summary / Review / Table of Content

1. Clive Bloom: Introduction: From Horace Walpole to the Divine Marquis de Sade
Gothic Ancestors
2. Giles Whiteley: Shakespeare, Influence and Appropriation
3. Cecilia Lindskog Whiteley: Jacobean Drama and the Macabre
Gothic Style
4. Beatriz Sanchez Santos and Manuel Aguirre: The Grammar of a Genre
5. Manuel Aguirre: Formulaic Language
Sentimental Gothic
6. Joan Passey: Ann Radcliffe's Influences and Legacies
7. Fanny Lacote: Ann Radcliffe and the French Revolution
8. Kaley Kramer: Forms and Feelings in the Genre
9. J.S. Mackley: The re-discovery of Eleanor Sleath
Gothic Science
10. Robert K. Shepherd: Victor Frankenstein Sullies The Book of Splendour
11. Marta Vega: The Myth of Frankenstein
Graveyard Gothic
12. Eric Parisot: Graveyard Poetry and the Aesthetics of Horror
13. Roger Luckhurst: The Necropolitan Imagination
14. Nicola Bowring: Writing the City and Loss in the Work of Thomas De Quincey
Gothic Poetry
15. Maria Giakaniki: The Dark Poetry of Charlotte Dacre
16. Kirstin A. Mills: The Poetics of Space, the Mind and the Supernatural in S. T. Coleridge
Visual Gothic
17. James Rattue: Gardens and Designed Landscapes
18. Peter N. Lindfield and Dale Townshend: Metaphor and Revivalist Architecture at Strawberry Hill
19. David Annwn Jones: The Art of Ghostly Projections
20. Simon Bacon: The Nightmare and Proto-vampires
Gothic Exoticism
21. Martina Bartlett: John Polidoris Mesmerising Vampire
22. Naomi Simone Borwein: The Cabinet of Orientalisms
Gothic Theology and the Mystical
23. Holly Hirst: Gothic Theologies of the Supernatural
24. Miranda Corcoran: Imagining the Occult in the Age of Enlightenment
25. Cleo Cameron: Materialism and The Monk
26. Charlie Jorge: Between the Nation and the Dark Recesses of the Soul in Charles Maturin
27. Joakim Wrethed: Charles Maturin Revisited
28. Simon Bacon: The Vrykolokas, the Wandering Jew, and the Flying Dutchman
29. Madeline Potter: The Body, Materiality, and Damnation in Charles Maturin.

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