The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales

The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales

by Chris Baldick
The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales

The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales

by Chris Baldick

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Overview

Brimming with tales of terror, suspense, and the uncanny, this work offers a collection devoted to the best of the Gothic genre. Each story contains the common elements of the gothic talea warped sense of time, a claustrophobic setting, a link to archaic modes of thought, and the impression of a descent into disintegration. Yet taken together, they reveal the progression of the genre from stories of feudal villains amid crumbling ruins to a greater level of sophistication in which writers brought the gothic tale out of its medieval setting, and placed it in the contemporary world. Bringing together the work of such writers as Eudora Welty, Thomas Hardy, Edgar Allan Poe, William Faulkner, Arthur Conan Doyle, Joyce Carol Oates, and Jorge Luis Borges, The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales presents a wide array of the sinister and unsettling for all lovers of ghost stories, fantasy, and horror.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780199561537
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 05/07/2009
Series: Oxford Books of Prose & Verse
Edition description: Reissue
Pages: 560
Sales rank: 1,159,712
Product dimensions: 5.10(w) x 7.70(h) x 1.50(d)

About the Author

Chris Baldick is Professor of English at Goldsmith's College, University of London. His books include In Frankenstein's Shadow: Myth, Monstrosity, and Nineteenth Century Writing and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms.

Table of Contents

I. BeginningsII. The Nineteenth CenturyIII. The Twentieth Century
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