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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Gothic plays and American society, 1794-1830 Gothic plays and American society, 1794-1830 M. Susan Anthony "This first full-length study of early American Gothic drama examines the relationship between Gothic plays and the developing society in which they flourished. It discusses topics ranging from the n… OL11989091W
Literature criticism from 1400 to 1800 Literature criticism from 1400 to 1800 Lawrence J. Trudeau,Thomas J. Schoenberg Presents literary criticism on the works of writers of the period 1400-1800. Critical essays are selected from leading sources, including published journals, magazines, books, reviews, diaries, broad… OL17274751W
Gothic romanticism Gothic romanticism Tom Duggett "Gothic Romanticism relates architecture, politics, and literary form to read afresh the works of the Lake Poets: Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Southey. Reading a wide range of canonical and lesser-read… OL18351402W
The Castle of Otranto The Castle of Otranto Horace Walpole This book is the earliest and most influential of the Gothic novels. First published pseudonymously in 1764, The Castle of Otranto purported to be a translation of an Italian story of the time of the… OL183675W
Asian Gothic Asian Gothic Andrew Hock-soon Ng "Broadly divided into essays on postcolonial Asian Gothic, Asian-American Gothic, and Gothic writings of specific Asian nations. The essays of Part One demonstrate flexibility in adopting divergent. … OL18652413W
The Travelling Circus of Lacrimosa The Travelling Circus of Lacrimosa David Jones In 1899, Victorian England hovers on the brink of a new century, a new monarch, and an entirely new age. Soon, the world will be altered forever, but change is imminent on a more personal level f… OL20424969W
Cryptomimesis Cryptomimesis Carla Jodey Castricano "Jodey Castricano develops the theory of cryptomimesis, a term devised to accommodate the convergence of philosophy, psychoanalysis, and certain "Gothic" stylistic, formal, and thematic patterns and … OL5781623W
Dracula Dracula Bram Stoker Sink your teeth into the ageless tale of the famous vampire Count Dracula. Dracula first horrified readers over 125 years ago. Today, this original gothic masterpiece includes a detailed explorati… OL85892W