Gothic Histories The Taste for Terror, 1764

Gothic Histories is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of the Gothic and its literary double, the horror genre, leading the reader from their origins in the haunted landscapes of the Romantics through Frankenstein and Dracula to the very different worlds of Hannibal Lecter and Goth Culture. Book jacket.

Clive Bloom is Professor Emeritus of English and American Studies at Middlesex University, UK. He currently teaches at both New York University and the University of Notre Dame.

Acknowledgements	p. viii
Now Welcome the Night: The Origins of Gothic Culture	p. 1
Every True Goth: From Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill to Thomas De Quincey's Opium Dreams	p. 24
With Raven Wings: Ann Radcliffe, German Horrors and the Divine Marquis	p. 52
Land of Shadows: Melmoth the Wanderer to Sweeney Todd	p. 81
Dark Reflections in a Dull Mirror: Fuseli's The Nightmare and the Origins of Gothic Theatre	p. 112
Desire and Loathing Strangely Mixed: Gothic Melodrama and The Phantom of the Opera	p. 128
Do You See It?: The Gothic and the Ghostly	p. 141
Its Alive: The Rise of the Gothic Movie	p. 163
After Midnight: Goth Culture, Vampire Games and the Irresistible Rise of Twilight	p. 179
Notes	p. 191
Primary Reading List	p. 197
Further Selected Readings in the Gothic	p. 200
Index	p. 203
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Gothic Histories The Taste for Terror, 1764 to the Present

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