Romantic Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion provides a thorough critical, textual and historical account of the Gothic aesthetic as manifested across a wide-range of Romantic-era literary texts, from the adumbrations of the Gothic mode in the proto-Romantic poetry of the 1740s, through to the 'belated' Gothic fictions of the late 1820s. Self-consciously breaching, like Hume and Gamer before it, the critical divide between what literary history has subsequently differentiated as the 'Gothic' and the 'Romantic: this collection of 17 newly commissioned chapters seeks to draw attention to what G. R. Thompson in 1947 termed 'dark Romanticism: that is, that prominent strain in late 18th and early 19th-century British, American and European literature in which the distinction between the popular, low-cultural reaches of the Gothic and the 'High' Romantic aesthetics of more canonical figures is all but erased.

About the Author
The Editors: Angela Wright is Senior Lecturer in Romantic Literature at the University of Sheffield. Dale Townshend is Senior Lecturer in Gothic and Romantic Literature at the University of Stirling.


Book Information
ISBN 9780748696741
Author Angela Wright
Format Hardback
Page Count 272
Imprint Edinburgh University Press
Publisher Edinburgh University Press
Weight(grams) 747g