History of the Gothic: Gothic Literature 1764-1824

Gothic Literature 1764-1824 offers a detailed and accessible introduction to classic British Gothic literature and the popular sub-genre of the Female Gothic. Works by such classic Gothic authors as Horace Walpole, Matthew Lewis, Ann Radcliffe, William Godwin and Mary Shelley are examined against the backdrop of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British social and political history as well as significant intellectual and cultural developments of the period. Examination of the Gothic's changi…