The English Gothic: A Bibliographic Guide to Writers from Horace Walpole to Mary Shelley
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
The English Gothic: A Bibliographic Guide to Writers from Horace Walpole to Mary Shelley
By (Author) Robert D. Spector
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Greenwood Press
23rd February 1984
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Fiction
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
Literary studies: general
016.8230872
Physical Properties
Hardback
269
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Reviews
The usefulness of these essays extends far beyond bibliographical value, for each provides an historical and biographical introduction to the author. A refreshing and exceedingly helpful change from traditional bibliographical eesays is Spector's decision to include enumerative bibliographies at the end of each section, which allows the reader to return to the bibliography and locate relatively quickly one source without having to re-read the essay proper. Lucidly written and critically concise, Spector's essays advance greatly the study of the great English Gothic period.-Genre
"The usefulness of these essays extends far beyond bibliographical value, for each provides an historical and biographical introduction to the author. A refreshing and exceedingly helpful change from traditional bibliographical eesays is Spector's decision to include enumerative bibliographies at the end of each section, which allows the reader to return to the bibliography and locate relatively quickly one source without having to re-read the essay proper. Lucidly written and critically concise, Spector's essays advance greatly the study of the great English Gothic period."-Genre
Author Bio
ROBERT D. SPECTOR is Professor Emeritus of English and coordinator of both the divisions of Humanities and of Communications, Fine and Performing Arts at Long Island University in Brooklyn. Author of more than 400 articles and reviews, he has published ten books, nine on eighteenth century topics. Previous books include Smollett's Women: A Study in an Eighteenth-Century Masculine Sensibility (1994), Political Controversy: A Study in Eighteenth-Century Propaganda (1992), Backgrounds to Restoration and Eighteenth-Century English Literature: An Annotated Bibliographical Guide to Modern Scholarship (1989), and The English Gothic: A Bibliographic Guide to Writers from Horace Walpole to Mary Shelley (1984), all published by Greenwood.
