Gothic theory and genre 265 19 gothic criticism 267 chris baldick and robert mighall 20 the gothic sublime 288 vijay mishra 21 psychoanalysis and the gothic 307 michelle a. The largest collection of essays in the field of american gothic. Buy a companion to the gothic blackwell companions to literature and culture new ed by punter, david isbn. A companion to the gothic by david punter goodreads. A history of gothic fictions from 1765 to the present day. In this volume, fourteen worldclass experts on the gothic provide thorough and revealing accounts of this haunting to horrifying type of fiction from the 1760s the decade of the castle of otranto, the first socalled gothic story to the end of the twentieth century an era.
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