Книга: Gothic Short Stories (Blair David); Wordsworth, 2002

Late in the eighteenth century authors began to write ‘Gothic’ stories as a way of putting literature back in touch with the irrational, the supernatural and the bizarre, which had been neglected in the ‘Age of Reason’.
This superb new collection brings together stories from the earliest decades of Gothic writing with later 19th and early 20th century tales from the period in which Gothic diversified into the familiar forms of the ghost- and-horror-story. Work by writers such as Poe, Dickens, Hawthorne, Gaskell and M. R. James appears alongside that of anonymous writers from the start of the period and many lesser-known authors from Britain and America. Some of these stories, like the haunting ‘The Lame Priest’ are ‘lost masterpieces’ and several have never been anthologised before. Together they cover the spectrum of Gothic story-telling – tales of madness and violence, of shape-shifters and spectres, that express some of the deepest fears of the human mind – insanity, sexuality, death and the often terrible power of the past to catch up with the present.
In a lively, authoritative introduction David Blair provides fresh insights and a detailed commentary on the stories’ place in the complex traditions of Gothic writing in British and American literature.

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Параметр	Значение
ISBN	9781840224252
Автор(ы)	Blair David
Автор	Blair D.
Авторы	Blair D.
Возрастная группа	18
Возрастное ограничение	16+
Возрастные ограничения	12
Год издания	2002
Год публикации	2002
Издатель	Wordsworth
Издательство	Wordsworth
Кол-во страниц	244
Количество книг	1
Количество страниц	272
Обложка	мягкая обложка
Переплет	Мягкий
Переплёт	Мягкий
Серия	Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
Формат	130x200
Язык издания	eng
Язык	Английский