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Bloom Clive |
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Titolo |
Gothic histories : the taste for terror, 1764 to the present / / Clive Bloom |
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London, [England] ; ; New York, New York : , : Continuum, , 2010 |
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©2010 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-27198-2 |
9786613271983 |
1-4411-5340-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (220 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Gothic revival (Literature) - Great Britain |
Horror tales, English - History and criticism |
English fiction - History and criticism |
Gothic revival (Art) |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter One: Now Welcome the Night: The Origins of Gothic Culture -- Chapter Two: Every True Goth: From Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill to Thomas De Quincey's Opium Dreams -- Chapter Three: With Raven Wings: Ann Radcliffe, German Horrors and the Divine Marquis -- Chapter Four: Land of Shadows: Melmoth the Wanderer to Sweeney Todd -- Chapter Five: Dark Reflections in a Dull Mirror: Fuseli's The Nightmare and the Origins of Gothic Theatre -- Chapter Six: Desire and Loathing Strangely Mixed: Gothic Melodrama and The Phantom of the Opera -- Chapter Seven: Do You See It?: The Gothic and the Ghostly -- Chapter Eight: It's Alive: The Rise of the Gothic Movie -- Chapter Nine: After Midnight: Goth Culture, Vampire Games and the Irresistible Rise of Twilight -- Notes -- Primary Reading List -- Further Selected Readings in the Gothic -- Index. |
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