David Blair Gothic Short Stories (Paperback) Tales of Mystery & The Supernatural

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Gothic Short StoriesCondition: NewEAN: 9781840224252ISBN: 9781840224252Publisher: Wordsworth Editions LtdFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 09/05/2002Item Height: 198mmItem Length: 129mmItem Width: 14mmItem Weight: 173gLanguage: EnglishISBN-10: 1840224258Description: Selected and Edited with an Introduction and Notes by David Blair, University of Kent at Canterbury. Late in the eighteenth century authors began to write ‘Gothic’ stories as a way of putting literature back in touch with the irrational, the supernatural and the bizarre, which had been neglected in the ‘Age of Reason’. This superb new collection brings together stories from the earliest decades of Gothic writing with later 19th and early 20th century tales from the period in which Gothic diversified into the familiar forms of the ghost- and-horror-story. Work by writers such as Poe, Dickens, Hawthorne, Gaskell and M. R. James appears alongside that of anonymous writers from the start of the period and many lesser-known authors from Britain and America. Some of these stories, like the haunting ‘The Lame Priest’ are ‘lost masterpieces’ and several have never been anthologised before. Together they cover the spectrum of Gothic story-telling – tales of madness and violence, of shape-shifters and spectres, that express some of the deepest fears of the human mind – insanity, sexuality, death and the often terrible power of the past to catch up with the present. In a lively, authoritative introduction David Blair provides fresh insights and a detailed commentary on the stories’ place in the complex traditions of Gothic writing in British and American literature.Country/Region of Manufacture: GBContributor: David Blair (Introduction and notes by), David Stuart Davies (Series edited by), David Blair (Edited by), David Blair (Selected by)Book Series: Tales of Mystery & The SupernaturalGenre: FictionTopic: HorrorAuthor: David BlairRelease Year: 2002 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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