A Geography of Victorian Gothic Fiction: Mapping History's Nightmares

by Robert Mighall

Book Overview

This is the first major full-length study of Victorian Gothic fiction. Combining original readings of familiar texts with a rich store of historical sources, A Geography of Victorian Gothic Fiction is an historicist survey of nineteenth-century Gothic writing--from Dickens to Stoker, Wilkie Collins to Conan Doyle, through European travelogues, sexological textbooks, ecclesiastic histories and pamphlets on the perils of self-abuse. Critics have thus...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199262187
• ISBN13: 9780199262182
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.5"