This is an introduction to a genre of ever-increasing importance in literary studies. Considering writers from Mary Shelley to David Lynch, the author...
PublishedManchester: Manchester University Press, 1999
This work offers a critical re-reading of fictions of humanity, history, technology and postmodern culture. Taking psychoanalysis into cyberspace, the...
'Gothic Romanced' traces the history, and complicity, of Gothic and Romantic writings from the 18th and 19th centuries to the present day. Botting manages...
Tailored specifically for students new to the daunting field of literary theory, Fred Botting's Gothicis a clear and welcome introduction to the study...
Emerging from the shadow of popular reproductions, Frankenstein's importance in debates about gender, culture and politics has been dramatically affected...
These essays reexamine the literary, historical and cultural significance of the Gothic. Examples range from Horace Walpole to Angela Carter and the modern...