Varieties of Female Gothic

Varieties of Female Gothic #1-6

by Gary Kelly (Editor)

This text offers scholarly and critical editions of significant novels of Gothic fiction from the Romantic period. It aims to broaden understanding of the diversity of female writers to new forms of the novel; to social criticism during the French Revolution debate and its aftermath; and to new models of social identity and relations during the formation of Romantic nationalsim and the modern liberal state. The form of female gothic romance first achieved controversial prominence in the late 18th and early 19th century. It evolved through the 19th and into the late 20th century in works ranging from the high literary novels of the Bronte sisters to the popular gothic romances and sensational novels of mass print. This book illustrates the various forms of female gothic literature as a vehicle for representing the modern forms of subjectivity, or complex and authentic inward experience and identity.

2028 pages, Hardcover

Published August 18, 2002

About the author

Dr Gary Kelly is Distinguished University Professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta, Canada. He holds a BA in History from the University of Toronto; and a BA and DPhil in English from the University of Oxford.

His research centres around Women's writing, Romanticism, Bluestocking work, Popular novels and Romantic fiction of the 18th & 19th centuries, Jane Austen, and Gothic literature.

Reviews

[Franzo]

The book is really well written and organized. Every volume explains the specific topic and it's a useful guide to have both a general introduction to the sub-genre of the female gothic and a study in details of the writers who belonged to it.