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Gothic short stories

Blair, David(Introduction and notes by)Blair, David(Edited by)Davies, David Stuart(Series edited by)Blair, David(Selected by)
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Selected and Edited with an Introduction and Notes by David Blair, University of Kent at Canterbury.

Late in the eighteenth century authors began to write x2018;Gothic x2019; stories as a way of putting literature back in touch with the irrational, the supernatural and the bizarre, which had been neglected in the x2018;Age of Reason x2019;.

This superb new collection brings together stories from the earliest decades of Gothic writing with later 19th and early 20th century tales from the period in which Gothic diversified into the familiar forms of the ghost- and-horror-story. Work by writers such as Poe, Dickens, Hawthorne, Gaskell and M. R. James appears alongside that of anonymous writers from the start of the period and many lesser-known authors from Britain and America. Some of these stories, like the haunting x2018;The Lame Priest x2019; are x2018;lost masterpieces x2019; and several have never been anthologised before. Together they cover the spectrum of Gothic story-telling x2013; tales of madness and violence, of shape-shifters and spectres, that express some of the deepest fears of the human mind x2013; insanity, sexuality, death and the often terrible power of the past to catch up with the present.

In a lively, authoritative introduction David Blair provides fresh insights and a detailed commentary on the stories x2019; place in the complex traditions of Gothic writing in British and American literature.

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Wordsworth Editions
1848705379 / 9781848705371
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05/09/2002
GB
English
235 pages
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