The Oxford book of gothic tales
By Chris Baldick, Anna Laetitia Aiken, Richard Cumberland, Anonymous, Juvenis., Isaac Crookenden, Petrus Borel, John Wadham, Edgar Allan Poe, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Bret Harte, George Washington Cable, Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, Marcel Schwob, Charlotte Perkins Stetson, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edith Nesbit, Ambrose Bierce, Ellen Glasgow, H.P. Lovecraft, William Faulkner, Clark Ashton Smith, Isak Dinesen, F.M. Mayor, Frederick Ignatius Cowles, Eudora Welty, Ray Russell, Alejandra Pizarnik, Jorge Luis Borges, Angela Carter, Joyce Carol Oates, Patrick McGrath and Isabel Allende
"The Oxford book of gothic tales" is published by Oxford University Press in 1992 - Oxford [England], it has 533 pages and the language of the book is English.
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- Title: ➤ The Oxford book of gothic tales
- Authors: ➤ Chris BaldickAnna Laetitia AikenRichard CumberlandAnonymousJuvenis.Isaac CrookendenPetrus BorelJohn WadhamEdgar Allan PoeJoseph Sheridan Le FanuNathaniel HawthorneBret HarteGeorge Washington CableRobert Louis StevensonThomas HardyMarcel SchwobCharlotte Perkins StetsonArthur Conan DoyleEdith NesbitAmbrose BierceEllen GlasgowH.P. LovecraftWilliam FaulknerClark Ashton SmithIsak DinesenF.M. MayorFrederick Ignatius CowlesEudora WeltyRay RussellAlejandra PizarnikJorge Luis BorgesAngela CarterJoyce Carol OatesPatrick McGrathIsabel Allende
- Language: English
- Number of Pages: 533
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publish Date: 1992
- Publish Location: Oxford [England]
“The Oxford book of gothic tales” Subjects and Themes:
- Subjects: ➤ tradition - change - death - short stories - allegory - nonlinear narrative - gentleman's agreements - recluses - Mentally ill women - Fiction - amorality - Anglo-Saxons - aristocracy - detective fiction - Juvenile audience - locked-room mysteries - Mystery and detective stories - Drama - Private investigators - Children's fiction - Gothic fiction (literary genre) - Horror tales - Fantasy fiction - Paranormal fiction - Gothic revival (Literature) - Supernatural - FictionAmerican Horror tales - burial vaults - catalepsy - dragons - gothic fiction - hermitages - heroic romances - horror - hysteria - knights - maces - psychogenic death - tarns - Social life and customs - Manners and customs - short story
- People: ➤ Sherlock Holmes - John H. Watson - Stroke Moran - Helen Stoner - Grimesby Roylott - Emily Grierson - Homer Barron - Mr. Grierson - Tobe - Colonel Sartoris - Roderick Usher - Madeline Usher - Ethelred - Giacomo Rappaccini - Giovanni Guasconti - Beatrice Rappaccini
- Places: ➤ England - Calcutta - India - Surrey - Jefferson - Mississippi - Yoknapatawpha County - Padua - Italy - University of Padua
- Time: Antebellum era
Edition Specifications:
- Pagination: xxiii, 533 p. ;
Edition Identifiers:
- The Open Library ID: OL1547868M - OL2963651W
- Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) ID: 24174052
- Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN): 91027290
- ISBN-10: 0192141945
- All ISBNs: 0192141945
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The Gothic tale has been with us for over two hundred years, but this collection is the first to illustrate the continuing strength of this special fictional tradition from the late eighteenth century to the present day. Gothic fiction is generally identified with Horace Walpole's Castle of Otranto and the works of Ann Radcliffe, and with heroes and heroines menaced by feudal villains amid crumbling ruins. While the repertoire of claustrophobic settings, gloomy themes and threatening atmosphere established the Gothic genre, later writers from Poe onwards achieved an ever greater sophistication, and a shift in emphasis from cruelty to decadence. Modern Gothic is distinguished by its imaginative variety of voice, from the chilling depiction of a disordered mind to the sinister suggestion of vampirism. This anthology brings together the work of writers such as Le Fanu, Hawthorne, Hardy, Faulkner, and Borges with their earliest literary forebears, and emphasizes the central role of women writers from Anna Laetitia Aikin to Isabel Allende. While the Gothic tale shares some characteristics with the ghost story and tales of horror and fantasy, the present volume triumphantly celebrates the distinctive features that define this powerful and unsettling literary form.
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