A thorough index covers people, places, sources, motifs, literary terms, titles, publishers, and literary authorities. Reference helps include alphabetic listings of major titles and authors, a time line of the evolution of Gothic literature, an overview of cinematic versions, and separate bibliographies of primary and secondary sources. Rounding out the text are additional study aids to particularize the lives of writers such as William Cullen Bryant and August Wilson published works including Bellefleur and “The House of Night” and details of Japanese Gothic, La Llorona, chiaroscuro, premature burial, and Gothic serials. In addition to a panoply of recovered Gothic works and facsimile editions are the handy electronic texts, including biographies from the University of Pennsylvania and Sheffield Hallam University, The Literary Encyclopedia, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, the illustrations of George Cruikshank from Princeton University, Dickens’s London, The Northanger Canon, and Chris Willis’s Web sites. Lovecraft, David Punter, Montague Summers, Mary Tarr, Devendra Varma, and Anne Williams. Of particular merit are the analyses of Margaret Atwood, Susan Gubar, Sandra Gilbert, H. Varnado, Andrew Webber, Susan Williams, Judith Wilt, and Leonard Wolf. Messent, Michael Meyer, Robert Mighall, Kay Mussell, Elizabeth Napier, Margot Northey, Joyce Carol Oates, Paul Ranger, Gabriel Ronay, Victor Sage, Cannon Schmitt, Andrew Smith, Robert Spector, Jack Sullivan, Tsvetan Todorov, Yi-Fu Tuan, James Twitchell, S. If he does not shock the ladies, what can be expected of him? -Leigh Hunt, Tale for a Chimney Corner (1819) If he does not frighten everybody, he is nobody. He is bound to wear a death’s head as part of his insignia.
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Poet Elizabeth Carter in a letter to Elizabeth Vesey, AugA man who does not contribute his quota of grim story nowadays, seems hardly to be free of the republic of letters. It loves to traverse the pathless desert and enchanted forest, to roam amidst wild uncultivated nature, and amuse itself with the extravagant effects of untutored passions. Imagination is a capricious rover, fond of every object that carries it out of the track of daily and familiar occurrences. H For my friend Diana Norman, who is ever an example to me of careful research and spirited writing hĬONTENTS Preface Introduction A-to-Z Entries Major Works of Gothic Literature Major Authors of Gothic Literature and Their Works A Time Line of Gothic Literature Film Noir and Classic Gothic Works as Cinema Bibliography of Primary Sources Bibliography of Secondary Sources Index Toro Cover design by Semadar Megged Printed in the United States of America VB Hermitage 10 You can find Facts On File on the World Wide Web at Text design by Joan M. Please call our Special Sales Department in New York at (212) 967-8800 or (800) 322-8755. PN3435.S58 2005 809′.911-dc22 2004046986 Facts On File books are available at special discounts when purchased in bulk quantities for businesses, associations, institutions, or sales promotions. Title: Encyclopedia of Gothic literature. Gothic revival (Literature)-Encyclopedias. Includes bibliographical references and index. Encyclopedia of Gothic Literature / by Mary Ellen Snodgrass. 132 West 31st Street New York NY 10001 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Snodgrass, Mary Ellen. For information contact: Facts On File, Inc. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage or retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher. Encyclopedia of Gothic Literature MARY ELLEN SNODGRASSĮncyclopedia of Gothic Literature Copyright © 2005 by Mary Ellen Snodgrass All rights reserved.
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