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A New Companion to The Gothic
David Punter
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Description for A New Companion to The Gothic
Paperback. Thoroughly expanded and updated, this widely acclaimed Companion provides a series of stimulating insights into Gothic writing, its history and genealogy. The New Companion offers comprehensive coverage of the criticism of Gothic writing, and of the various theoretical approaches that it has inspired. Editor(s): Punter, David. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 568 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 247 x 171 x 27. Weight in Grams: 862.
The thoroughly expanded and updated New Companion to the Gothic, provides a series of stimulating insights into Gothic writing, its history and genealogy. The addition of 12 new essays and a section on Global Gothic reflects the direction Gothic criticism has taken over the last decade. * Many of the original essays have been revised to reflect current debates * Offers comprehensive coverage of criticism of the Gothic and of the various theoretical approaches it has inspired and spawned * Features important and original essays by leading scholars in the field * The editor is widely recognized as the founder ... Read more
The thoroughly expanded and updated New Companion to the Gothic, provides a series of stimulating insights into Gothic writing, its history and genealogy. The addition of 12 new essays and a section on Global Gothic reflects the direction Gothic criticism has taken over the last decade. * Many of the original essays have been revised to reflect current debates * Offers comprehensive coverage of criticism of the Gothic and of the various theoretical approaches it has inspired and spawned * Features important and original essays by leading scholars in the field * The editor is widely recognized as the founder ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
Condition
New
Weight
862g
Number of Pages
568
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United States
ISBN
9781119062509
SKU
V9781119062509
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About David Punter
David Punter is Professor of English at the University of Bristol. He has written extensively on Gothic, romantic, and modern literature, literary theory, and psychoanalysis, as well as producing four volumes of poetry. His recent publications include The Gothic (with Glennis Byron, Blackwell, 2004), Metaphor (2007), Modernity (2007), and Rapture: Literature, Addiction, Secrecy (2009).
Reviews for A New Companion to The Gothic
From reviews of the previous edition: It offers a range of strategies for understanding the genre, and is an excellent resource for students, teachers, and scholars of the Gothic. Gothic Studies [Its] obvious value ... is its wealth of critical approaches from good, old-fashioned history of ideas readings to the most sophisticated of recent theory. Romanticism on the Net The ... Read more