Gothic Evolutions: Poetry, Tales, Context, Theory

by Corinna Wagner (Editor)

The texts in this unique collection range from the Gothic Revival of the late eighteenth century through to the late Victorian gothic, and from the poetry of Wordsworth and Coleridge to the short fiction of H.G. Wells and Henry James. Genres represented include medievalist poetry, psychological thrillers, dark political dystopias, sinister tales of social corruption, and popular ghost tales. In addition to a wide selection of classic and lesser-known texts from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Gothic Evolutions includes key examples of the aesthetic, scientific, and cultural theory related to the Gothic, from John Locke and David Hume to Sigmund Freud and Julia Kristeva.

Genres: Gothic, Nonfiction

624 pages, Paperback

First published October 31, 2013

Reviews

[celine]

it was clear why my prof picked the stories he did :| i liked few of the others he didn’t make us read, but the majority of the rest were quite boring