The encyclopedia of the gothic / / edited by William Hughes, David Punter, Andrew Smith

• Pubblicazione: West Sussex, England : , : John Wiley & Sons Ltd, , [2016]; ©2016
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Disciplina: 809.3872903
• Soggetto topico: Gothic fiction (Literary genre)
• Persona (resp. second.): HughesWilliam <1964->; SmithAndrew <1964->; PunterDavid
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Literature -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Alphabetical List of Entries -- General Editors -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Chapter A -- Abjection -- Abyss, The -- Adultery -- African American Gothic -- Aickman, Robert -- Ainsworth, William Harrison -- American Gothic -- Amityville Horror, The -- Angel (1999-2004) -- Anglo-Caribbean Gothic -- Anti-Semitism -- Apparition -- Architecture, Gothic -- Architecture, Gothic Revival -- Asian Gothic -- Asylums -- Atwood, Margaret -- Australian Gothic -- Chapter B -- Barker, Clive -- Baudelaire, Charles -- Beckford, William -- Benson, E. F. (Edward Frederic) -- Bierce, Ambrose -- Blackwood, Algernon -- Blood -- Bluebooks -- Braddon, Mary Elizabeth -- Brite, Poppy Z. -- Brown, Charles Brockden -- Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003) -- Bulwer Lytton, Edward -- Bürger, Gottfried -- Burton, Tim -- Byron, George Gordon, Sixth Baron -- Chapter C -- Cabell, James Branch -- Campbell, Ramsey -- Campus Gothic -- Canadian Gothic -- Carter, Angela -- Collins, Wilkie -- Comic Gothic1 -- Comics and Graphic Novels -- Commodity Gothicism -- Contemporary Gothic -- Corelli, Marie -- Counterfeit -- Crime -- Criticism -- Cronenberg, David -- Crowley, Aleister -- Cryptonymy -- Cult Fiction -- Cults -- Curse -- Cyberspace -- Chapter D -- De Quincey, Thomas -- Degeneration -- Dickens, Charles -- Disability -- Domestic Gothic -- Dostoevsky, Fyodor -- Doubles -- Drama -- Dreams -- Drugs and Alcohol -- Du Maurier, Daphne -- Dutch Gothic -- Chapter E -- Environment -- European Gothic -- Chapter F -- Family -- Fate -- Faulkner, William -- Female Gothic -- Film -- Film, French -- Fin-de-Siècle Gothic -- Folklore -- French Gothic -- Friday the 13th (1980) -- Future Gothic -- Chapter G -- Games -- German Expressionism -- German Gothic -- Ghost Stories. ; Godwin, William -- Goth -- Gothic 1900 to 1950 -- Gothic 1950 to the Present -- Graveyard Poetry -- Grotesque, The -- Chapter H -- Halloween (1978) -- Hammer House -- Hawthorne, Nathaniel -- Herbert, James -- Hill, Susan -- Hodgson, William Hope -- Hoffmann, E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) -- Hogg, James -- Horror Fiction -- Hypnotism -- Chapter I -- Imperial Gothic -- Incest -- Inheritance -- Inquisition, The -- International Gothic Association, The -- Intertext -- Ireland, William Henry -- Irish Gothic -- Chapter J -- Jackson, Shirley -- James, Henry -- James, M. R. (Montague Rhodes) -- Japanese Gothic -- Jewish Gothic -- Chapter K -- Kafka, Franz -- King, Stephen -- Kipling, Rudyard -- Chapter L -- Lathom, Francis -- Law and the Gothic -- Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan -- Lemoine, Ann -- Lesbian Gothic -- Lewis, Matthew -- Liminality -- Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips) -- Lugosi, Bela -- Chapter M -- Macabre, The -- MacDonald, George -- Machen, Arthur -- Magazines -- Manga -- Marsh, Richard -- Masks, Veils, and Disguises -- Matheson, Richard -- Maturin, Charles Robert -- McCabe, Patrick -- McCarthy, Cormac -- McGrath, Patrick -- Medicine and the Gothic -- Mediumship -- Melodrama -- Melville, Herman -- Misogyny -- Modernism -- Monster Movies -- Monstrosity -- Mummies -- Music -- Chapter N -- Necromancy -- New England Gothic -- New Zealand Gothic -- Nightmare on Elm Street, A (1984) -- Nodier, Charles -- Chapter O -- Oates, Joyce Carol -- Occultism -- Odoevsky, Vladimir -- Opera -- Chapter P -- Penny Dreadfuls -- Phobia -- Poe, Edgar Allan -- Poison -- Polidori, John -- Popular Culture -- Portraits -- Postcolonial Gothic -- Postfeminist Gothic -- Poststructuralism and the Gothic -- Protestantism -- Psychical Investigation -- Psychoanalysis -- Psychological Thrillers -- Chapter Q -- Queer Gothic -- Chapter R -- Race -- Radcliffe, Ann -- Radio. ; Reeve, Clara -- Reynolds, G. W. M. (George William MacArthur) -- Rice, Anne -- Riddell, Charlotte -- Rohmer, Sax -- Roman Catholicism -- Romanticism -- Rosicrucianism -- Ruins -- Russian Gothic -- Chapter S -- Sade, Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de -- Scandinavian Gothic -- Schiller, Friedrich von -- Science and the Gothic -- Scottish Gothic -- Secret Histories -- Secret Societies -- Sensation Fiction -- Sensibility -- Sex -- Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft -- Shelley, Percy Bysshe -- Sinclair, May -- Slasher Movies -- Slavery and the Gothic -- Southern Gothic -- Spectacle -- Spectrality -- Spiritualism -- Stevenson, Robert Louis -- Stoker, Bram -- Sturm und Drang -- Sublime, The -- Suburban Gothic -- Supernatural, The -- Chapter T -- Taboo -- Tales of Terror -- Teaching the Gothic -- Technologies -- Tegg, Thomas -- Television -- Terror -- Theory -- Thompson, Alice -- Twilight -- Chapter U -- Uncanny, The -- Urban Gothic -- Chapter V -- Vampire Fiction -- Victorian Gothic -- Village Gothic -- Voodoo -- Chapter W -- Walpole, Horace -- Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) -- Welsh Gothic -- Werewolves -- Wharton, Edith -- Wheatley, Dennis -- Wilde, Oscar -- Wilkinson, Sarah -- Williams, Tennessee -- Witchcraft -- Wordsworth, William -- Chapter Z -- Zombies -- Index -- End User License Agreement.
• Sommario/riassunto: "Brings together over 200 newly commissioned essays by leading scholars writing on all aspects of the Gothic as it is currently taught and researched, as well as challenging insights into the development of the genre and its impact on contemporary culture"--
• Titolo autorizzato: The encyclopedia of the gothic
• ISBN: 1-118-39850-5; 1-119-17573-9; 1-119-21041-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996239848503316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Wiley-Blackwell encyclopedia of literature.