The Tale of Terror-A Study of the Gothic Romance - Couverture souple

Birkhead, Edith

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1482557339 ISBN 13 : 9781482557336

Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013

Synopsis

A pioneering work about Gothic Fiction in which she described the fascination with supernatural fiction in English literature from the publication of Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto in 1764 to Charles Maturin's 'Melmoth the Wanderer' in 1820 on to modern times. She included works from Europe as well as America, including Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Edith Birkhead was a lecturer in English Literature at the University of Bristol and a Noble Fellow at the University of Liverpool. She wrote a pioneering work on Gothic literature: The Tale of Terror (1921). This work described the fascination with supernatural fiction in English literature from the publication of Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto in 1764 to Charles Maturin's 'Melmoth the Wanderer' in 1820 on to modern times. She included works from Europe as well as America, including Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1482557339
• ISBN 13: 9781482557336
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 130
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible