A Guide to the Gothic

by Jeanette A Laredo

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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.

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Publisher
Tarrant County College (Trinity River)
Subjects
Humanities, Literature and Literacy
Licence
CC BY 4.0, as LibreTexts states it
Who can read
Teens profiles and older, judged from its title and subjects

Contents

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  1. Front Matter
  2. TitlePage
  3. InfoPage
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Licensing
  6. About the Authors
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Introduction
  9. 1: Gothic Literature in the Eighteenth Century
  10. 1.1: Gothic Literature in the Eighteenth Century
  11. 1.2: Edmund Burke, from On the Sublime and Beautiful (1757)
  12. 1.3: Horace Walpole, excerpt from The Castle of Otranto (1764)
  13. 1.4: Clara Reeve, excerpt from The Old English Baron (1778)
  14. 1.5: William Beckford, excerpt from Vathek (1786)
  15. 1.6: Mary Wollstonecraft, From A Vindication of the Rights of Woman- with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects (1792)
  16. 1.7: Caleb Williams; or, Things As They Are (1794)
  17. 1.8: Anne Radcliffe, excerpt from The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794)
  18. 1.9: Matthew Lewis, excerpt from The Monk (1796)
  19. 1.10: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Review of The Monk
  20. 1.11: Mary Shelley, excerpt from Frankenstein (1818)
  21. 1.12: Resources for Instructors
  22. 2: Victorian Gothic
  23. 2.1: Victorian Gothic
  24. 2.2: Jane Austen, excerpt from Northanger Abbey (1817)
  25. 2.3: Charlotte Brontë, excerpt from Jane Eyre (1847)
  26. 2.4: Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886)
  27. 2.5: Oscar Wilde, excerpt from The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)
  28. 2.6: Bram Stoker, excerpt from Dracula (1897)
  29. 2.7: Resources for Instructors
  30. 3: No Man’s Land, Elder Gods and Monsters- The Modern Gothic from 1900-1932.
  31. 3.1: No Man’s Land, Elder Gods and Monsters- The Modern Gothic from 1900-1932.
  32. 3.2: Edith Wharton, “Afterward” (1910)
  33. 3.3: Sigmund Freud, excerpt from The Uncanny (1919)
  34. 3.4: H.P. Lovecraft, “The Picture in the House” (1920)
  35. 3.5: Virginia Woolf, “A Haunted House” (1921)
  36. 3.6: Resources for Instructors
  37. Back Matter
  38. Index
  39. Glossary
  40. Detailed Licensing