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A research guide for specialists in the Gothic novel, the Romantic movement, the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novel, and popular culture, this work contains summaries of more than two hundred novels, reputed to be Gothic, published in English between 1790 and 1830. Also included are indexes of titles and characters and an extensive index of characteristic objects, motifs, and themes that recur in the novels—such as corpses, bloody and otherwise, dungeons, secret passageways, filicide, fratricide, infanticide, matricide, patricide, and suicide. The novels described, including those by such writers as Charlotte Dacre, Louisa Sidney Stanhope, Regina Maria Roche, Charles Maturin, and Mary Shelley, are for the most part out of print and circulation and are unavailable except in rare book rooms. Thus this book provides the researcher with ready access to information that would otherwise be difficult to obtain.
Gothic dreams and nightmares is an edited collection on the compelling yet under-theorised subject of Gothic dreams and nightmares ranging across more than two centuries of literature, the visual arts, and twentieth- and twenty-first century visual media. Written by an international group of experts, including leading and lesser-known scholars, it considers its subject in various national, cultural, and socio-historical contexts, engaging with questions of philosophy, morality, rationality, consciousness, and creativity.
Leopold, Lord of St. Iver, sets his sights on the beautiful young Ethelwina, Countess of Auburne, and determines to possess her body and her estates. When she rebuffs his proposals of marriage, he imprisons her in his impenetrable castle in the mountains of Wales. Trapped in a dungeon in the ruined northern tower, Ethelwina will have to overcome Leopold's diabolical plots, including his intention to destroy her will by the use of potions, and his threat to rape her if she refuses to become his bride. But the dungeon holds still more terrors for Ethelwina. Inside her chamber are a bloodstained mattress and a rusty dagger, and when a vengeful spectre that seems to be the ghost of her father appears to her, she will have to solve the mystery of his fate and revenge his death! One of the finest Gothic novels of the 1790s, Ethelwina; or, The House of Fitz-Auburne (1799) has remained out of print for almost 210 years and can be found in only three libraries worldwide today. This new edition features the unabridged text of the three volume first edition along with a new introduction that reveals for the first time the details of T. J. Horsley Curties's life, a portrait of the author, and a reproduction of the frontispiece of the first edition.
An important and unique work about Gothic fiction, by"the major anthologist of supernatural and Gothic fiction", Montague Summers.