This is a book of fourteen essays on themes within the Gothic, from the eighteenth century to the present day, by the best-known and most highly reputed current scholar of the Gothic.
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Volume two continues the survey through the gothic writing of the twentienth century, it includes a new chapter on film and post-war fiction, and a detailed examination of the development of a 'culture of horror'.
This volume covers the period from 1765 up to the Edwardian age, exploring the richness and literary diversity of the gothic form: from the original eighteenth-century gothic of Ann Radcliffe to the melodramatic fiction of Wilkie Collins.
Uses the works of authors from Plato to Iain Banks to explore writing and the passions in thought and literature. Topics addressed in the book include the meaning of crime passionnel, art, passion and ceremonial, adoration and abjection, and the nature of the exotic.