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A Guide to the Gothic

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A Guide to the Gothic

A Guide to the Gothic is an openly licensed, online textbook that presents a comprehensive examination of the genre. In addition to critical essays exploring major periods, tropes and trends of the Gothic tradition, A Guide to the Gothic includes selections from more than 200 years of Gothic works that are in the public domain. Intended for instructors of Gothic literature seeking a collaborative resource to educate and inspire the next generation of Gothic scholars.

Literature and LiteracyHumanities
Author
Jeanette A Laredo
Publisher
Tarrant County College (Trinity River)
Source
LibreTexts
License
CC BY
Language
EN
Category
English
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Contents· 28 sections
  1. 01: Gothic Literature in the Eighteenth Century
  2. 1.01: Gothic Literature in the Eighteenth Century
  3. 1.02: Edmund Burke from On the Sublime and Beautiful (1757)
  4. 1.03: Horace Walpole excerpt from The Castle of Otranto (1764)
  5. 1.04: Clara Reeve excerpt from The Old English Baron (1778)
  6. 1.05: William Beckford excerpt from Vathek (1786)
  7. 1.06: Mary Wollstonecraft From A Vindication of the Rights of Woman- with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects (1792)
  8. 1.07: Caleb Williams or Things As They Are (1794)
  9. 1.08: Anne Radcliffe excerpt from The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794)
  10. 1.09: Matthew Lewis excerpt from The Monk (1796)
  11. 1.10: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Review of The Monk
  12. 1.11: Mary Shelley excerpt from Frankenstein (1818)
  13. 1.12: Resources for Instructors
  14. 02: Victorian Gothic
  15. 2.01: Victorian Gothic
  16. 2.02: Jane Austen excerpt from Northanger Abbey (1817)
  17. 2.03: Charlotte Bronte excerpt from Jane Eyre (1847)
  18. 2.04: Robert Louis Stevenson Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886)
  19. 2.05: Oscar Wilde excerpt from The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)
  20. 2.06: Bram Stoker excerpt from Dracula (1897)
  21. 2.07: Resources for Instructors
  22. 03: No Mans Land Elder Gods and Monsters- The Modern Gothic from 1900-1932.
  23. 3.01: No Mans Land Elder Gods and Monsters- The Modern Gothic from 1900-1932.
  24. 3.02: Edith Wharton Afterward (1910)
  25. 3.03: Sigmund Freud excerpt from The Uncanny (1919)
  26. 3.04: H.P. Lovecraft The Picture in the House (1920)
  27. 3.05: Virginia Woolf A Haunted House (1921)
  28. 3.06: Resources for Instructors