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From Horace Walpole to the divine Marquis de Sade / Clive Bloom -- Gothic Ancestors -- Shakespeare, influence and appropriation / Giles Whiteley -- Jacobean drama and the macabre / Cecilia Lindskog Whiteley -- Gothic Style -- The grammar of genre / Beatriz Sánchez-Santos and Manuel Aguirre -- Formulaic language / Manuel Aguirre -- Sentimental Gothic -- Ann Radcliffe's influences and legacies / Joan Passey -- Ann Radcliffe and the French Revolution / Fanny Lacôte -- Forms and feeling in the genre / Kaley Kramer -- The re-discovery of Eleanor Smith / J.S. Mackley -- Gothic Science -- Victor Frankenstein sullies the book of splendour / Robert K. Shepherd -- The myth of Frankenstein / Marta Vega Trijueque -- Graveyard Gothic -- Graveyard poetry and the aesthetics of horror / Eric Parisot -- The necropolitan gothic / Roger Luckhurst -- Writing the city and loss in the work of Thomas De Quincy / Nicola Bowring -- Gothic Poetry -- The dark poetry of Charlotte Dacre / Maria Gianiki -- The poetics of space, the mind, and the supernatural in S. T. Coleridge / Kirstin A. Mills -- Visual Gothic -- Gardens and designed landscapes / James Rattue -- Metaphor and revivalist architecture at Strawberry Hill / Peter N. Lindfield and Dale Townshend -- The art of ghostly projections / David Annwn Jones -- The nightmare and proto-vampires / Simon Bacon -- Gothic Exoticism -- John Polidori's mesmerising vampire / Martina Bartlett -- The cabinet of orientalisms / Naomi Simone Borwein -- Gothic Theology and the Mystical -- Gothic theologies of the supernatural / Holly Hirst -- Imagining the occult in the age of enlightenment / Miranda Corcoran -- Materialism and The monk / Cleo Cameron -- Between the nation and the dark recesses of the soul in Charles Maturin / Charlie Jorge -- Charles Maturin revisited / Joakim Wrethed -- The Vrykolakas, the Wandering Jews, and the Flying Dutchman / Simon Bacon -- The body, materiality, and damnation in Charles Maturin / Madeline Potter -- Index. This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of research on the Gothic Revival. The Gothic Revival was based on emotion rather than reason and when Horace Walpole created Strawberry Hill House, a gleaming white castle on the banks of the Thames, he had to create new words to describe the experience of gothic lifestyle. Nevertheless, Walpole's house produced nightmares and his book The Castle of Otranto was the first truly gothic novel, with supernatural, sensational and Shakespearean elements challenging the emergent fiction of social relationships. The novel's themes of violence, tragedy, death, imprisonment, castle battlements, dungeons, fair maidens, secrets, ghosts and prophecies led to a new genre encompassing prose, theatre, poetry and painting, whilst opening up a whole world of imagination for entrepreneurial female writers such as Mary Shelley, Joanna Baillie and Ann Radcliffe, whose immensely popular books led to the intense inner landscapes of the Bronte sisters. Matthew Lewis's The Monk created a new gothic: atheistic, decadent, perverse, necrophilic and hellish. The social upheaval of the French Revolution and the emergence of the Romantic movement with its more intense (and often) atheistic self-absorption led the gothic into darker corners of human experience with a greater emphasis on the inner life, hallucination, delusion, drug addiction, mental instability, perversion and death and the emerging science of psychology. The intensity of the German experience led to an emphasis on doubles and schizophrenic behaviour, ghosts, spirits, mesmerism, the occult and hell. This volume charts the origins of this major shift in social perceptions and completes a trilogy of Palgrave Handbooks on the Gothic--combined they provide an exhaustive survey of current research in Gothic studies, a go-to for students and researchers alike
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