The Cambridge Companion To Gothic Fiction

This Companion covers British and American crime fiction from the eighteenth century to the end of the twentieth. As well as discussing the detective fiction of writers like Agatha Christie and Raymond Chandler, it considers other kinds of fiction where...

From 1980 to the present, huge transformations have occurred in every area of British cultural life. The election of Margaret Thatcher in 1979 ushered in a new neoliberal era in politics and economics that dramatically reshaped the British landscape....

This second volume of The Cambridge History of the Gothic provides a rigorous account of the Gothic in British, American and Continental European culture, from the Romantic period through to the Victorian fin de si¿e. Here, leading scholars in the fields...

<p>The thoroughly expanded and updated <i>New Companion to the Gothic</i>, 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...