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

Birkhead, Edith

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ISBN 10 : 3849521753 ISBN 13 : 9783849521752

Editeur : Tredition Classics, 2013

Synopsis

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A propos du livre

Biographie 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.

Présentation de l'éditeur

The Tale of Terror: A Study of the Gothic Romance by Edith Birkhead

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Tredition Classics
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3849521753
• ISBN 13: 9783849521752
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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