A geography of Victorian Gothic fiction

Description:

"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. Mighall challenges the psychological approach to Gothic fiction which currently prevails, demonstrating the importance of geographical, historical, and discursive factors that have been largely neglected by critics, and employing a variety of original sources to demonstrate the contexts of Gothic fiction and explain its development in the Victorian period."--Jacket.

subjects: History and criticism,  Gothic revival (Literature),  English fiction,  History,  Literature and history,  Geography in literature,  Horror tales, English,  English Horror tales,  Horror tales, history and criticism,  English fiction, history and criticism, 19th century

Places: Great Britain

Times: 19th century