Gothic Writers: A Critical and Bibliographical Guide
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Gothic Writers: A Critical and Bibliographical Guide
By (Author) Douglass H. Thomson
Edited by Jack G. Voller
Edited by Frederick S. Frank
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Greenwood Press
30th November 2001
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
Reference works
823.0872909
Physical Properties
Hardback
544
Width 156mm, Height 235mm
936g
Description
With its roots in Romanticism, antiquarianism, and the primacy of the imagination, the Gothic genre originated in the eighteenth century, flourished in the nineteenth, and continues to thrive today. This reference work provides an introduction to Gothic literature and its abundant criticism and summarizes contemporary developments and critical opinion in Gothic Studies. The volume includes alphabetically arranged entries for more than 50 Gothic writers from Horace Walpole to Stephen King. Each entry includes a primary bibliography, a critical essay on the author's place in the Gothic tradition, and a selected, annotated bibliography of scholarship. Entries for Russian, Japanese, French, and German writers give an international scope to the book, while the focus on English and American literature shows the dynamic nature of Gothicism today.
Reviews
[a]cademic libraries and researchers will find that it offers much.-Reference Reviews
[A]n upper-level undergraduate, or perhaps a graduate student in need of a work mapping out the Gothic through its brief critical surveys and annotated bibliographies.-SFRA Review
Celebrating the literary gothic's academic revival over the past ten years, this volume's 54 essays discuss 18th- and 19th-century British authors associated with gothic in its heyday and includes entries for American, Canadian, and Japanese writers of the 20th century....Appropriate for reference or circulating collections in academic libraries.-Choice
Gothic Writers targets the needs of a "broad spectrum of users," from the undergraduate in search of a term paper topic, to the well-published researcher who has references to check or course syllabi to build. It even offers something to a reader who is simply curious about Gothic studies or may be encountering it for the very first time...always accessible and intellectually stimulating. Gothic Writers is excellent in all respects...it will be a welcome addition to reference shelves.-Reference & User Services Quarterly
Many of the authors found here are discussed in other resources...but no other work treats them in the context of current Gothic studies. Recommended for academic and large public libraries.-Booklist/Reference Books Bulletin
Recommended for academic libraries.-Library Journal
Recommended for academic libraries.Library Journal
"academic libraries and researchers will find that it offers much."-Reference Reviews
"An upper-level undergraduate, or perhaps a graduate student in need of a work mapping out the Gothic through its brief critical surveys and annotated bibliographies."-SFRA Review
"[a]cademic libraries and researchers will find that it offers much."-Reference Reviews
"[A]n upper-level undergraduate, or perhaps a graduate student in need of a work mapping out the Gothic through its brief critical surveys and annotated bibliographies."-SFRA Review
"Celebrating the literary gothic's academic revival over the past ten years, this volume's 54 essays discuss 18th- and 19th-century British authors associated with gothic in its heyday and includes entries for American, Canadian, and Japanese writers of the 20th century....Appropriate for reference or circulating collections in academic libraries."-Choice
"Many of the authors found here are discussed in other resources...but no other work treats them in the context of current Gothic studies. Recommended for academic and large public libraries."-Booklist/Reference Books Bulletin
"Recommended for academic libraries."-Library Journal
"Gothic Writers targets the needs of a "broad spectrum of users," from the undergraduate in search of a term paper topic, to the well-published researcher who has references to check or course syllabi to build. It even offers something to a reader who is simply curious about Gothic studies or may be encountering it for the very first time...always accessible and intellectually stimulating. Gothic Writers is excellent in all respects...it will be a welcome addition to reference shelves."-Reference & User Services Quarterly
Author Bio
DOUGLASS H. THOMSON is Associate Professor of English at Georgia Southern University. JACK G. VOLLER is Associate Professor of English at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville. FREDERICK S. FRANK is Professor Emeritus of English at Allegheny College.
