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  1. Art of darkness
    a poetics of Gothic
    Published: 1995
    Publisher:  University of Chicago Press, Chicago ; EBSCO Industries, Inc., Birmingham, AL, USA

    Art of Darkness is an ambitious attempt to describe the principles governing Gothic literature. Ranging across five centuries of fiction, drama, and verse?including tales as diverse as Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto, Shelley's Frankenstein,... more

    Bibliothek der Hochschule Mainz, Untergeschoss
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    Art of Darkness is an ambitious attempt to describe the principles governing Gothic literature. Ranging across five centuries of fiction, drama, and verse?including tales as diverse as Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto, Shelley's Frankenstein, Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and Freud's The Mysteries of Enlightenment?Anne Williams proposes three new premises: that Gothic is "poetic," not novelistic, in nature; that there are two parallel Gothic traditions, Male and Female; and that the Gothic and the Romantic represent a single literary tradition. Building on the psy.

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780226899039; 0226899039
    RVK Categories: HG 674 ; HL 1101 ; HL 1131
    Subjects: Gothic novel
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 311 pages), Illustrations
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-300) and index

  2. Art of darkness
    a poetics of Gothic
    Published: c1995
    Publisher:  University of Chicago Press, Chicago

    Art of Darkness is an ambitious attempt to describe the principles governing Gothic literature. Ranging across five centuries of fiction, drama, and verse?including tales as diverse as Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto, Shelley's Frankenstein,... more

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    Hochschule Aalen, Bibliothek
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    Universitätsbibliothek der Eberhard Karls Universität
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    Art of Darkness is an ambitious attempt to describe the principles governing Gothic literature. Ranging across five centuries of fiction, drama, and verse?including tales as diverse as Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto, Shelley's Frankenstein, Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and Freud's The Mysteries of Enlightenment?Anne Williams proposes three new premises: that Gothic is "poetic," not novelistic, in nature; that there are two parallel Gothic traditions, Male and Female; and that the Gothic and the Romantic represent a single literary tradition. Building on the psy

     

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  3. Art of darkness
    a poetics of Gothic
    Published: ©1995
    Publisher:  University of Chicago Press, Chicago

    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Hochschulbibliothek, Standort Weiden
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0226899039; 9780226899039
    RVK Categories: HG 674 ; HL 1101 ; HL 1131
    Subjects: English literature; Gothic revival (Literature); Horror tales, English; Poetics; Romanticism; Littérature frénétique / Histoire et critique; Roman noir (Genre littéraire) / Histoire et critique; Récits d'horreur / Histoire et critique; Littérature anglaise / 18e siècle / Histoire et critique; Littérature anglaise / 19e siècle / Histoire et critique; Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature; Romantisme / Grande-Bretagne; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Engels; Letterkunde; Gothic novel; Englisch; Geschichte; Literatur; Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English; English literature; English literature; Horror tales, English; Romanticism; Poetics; Poetics; Gothic novel; Englisch; Schauerliteratur; Geschichte; Familie <Motiv>
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 311 pages)
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-300) and index

    Cover -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION Gothic Fiction's Family Romances -- Part One: Riding Nightmares; or, What's Novel about Gothic? -- ONE The Nightmare of History: Acting On and Acting Out -- TWO The House of Bluebeard: Gothic Engineering -- THREE Pope as Gothic "Novelist": Eloisa to Abelard -- FOUR Symbolization and Its Discontents -- FIVE The Nature of Gothic -- SIX Family Plots -- Part Two: Reading Nightmères; or, The Two Gothic Traditions -- SEVEN Nightmère's Milk: The Male and Female Formulas -- EIGHT Male Gothic: Si(g)ns of the Fathers -- NINE Demon Lovers: The Monk -- TEN Why Are Vampires Afraid of Garlic? Dracula -- ELEVEN The Female Plot of Gothic Fiction -- TWELVE The Male as "Other" -- THIRTEEN The Fiction of Feminine Desires: Not the Mirror but the Lamp -- FOURTEEN The Eighteenth-Century Psyche: The Mysteries of Udolpho -- Part Three: Writing in Gothic; or, Changing the Subject -- FIFTEEN Dispelling the Name of the Father -- SIXTEEN An "I" for an Eye: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner -- SEVENTEEN "Frost at Midnight": (M)others and Other Strangers -- EIGHTEEN Keats and the Names of the Mother -- EPILOGUE The Mysteries of Enlightenment; or, Dr. Freud's Gothic Novel -- APPENDIX A Inner and Outer Spaces: The Alien Trilogy -- APPENDIX B Gothic Families -- APPENDIX C The Female Plot of Gothic Fiction -- Bibliography -- Index

    Art of Darkness is an ambitious attempt to describe the principles governing Gothic literature. Ranging across five centuries of fiction, drama, and verse?including tales as diverse as Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto, Shelley's Frankenstein, Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and Freud's The Mysteries of Enlightenment?Anne Williams proposes three new premises: that Gothic is "poetic," not novelistic, in nature; that there are two parallel Gothic traditions, Male and Female; and that the Gothic and the Romantic represent a single literary tradition. Building on the psy