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The Oxford book of gothic tales / edited by Chris Baldick.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2009]Description: xxiii, 533 pages ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780199561537
  • 0199561532
Other title:
  • Gothic tales
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 808.83/8729 22
LOC classification:
  • PN6120.95.G64 O95 2009
Other classification:
  • HG 862
Contents:
Beginnings: Sir Bertrand: A fragment (1773) / Anna Laetitia Aikin -- The poisoner of Montremos (1791) / Richard Cumberland -- The Friar's tale (1792) / Anonymous -- Raymond: A fragment (1799) / Juvenis -- The parricide punished (1799) / Anonymous -- The ruins of the Abbey of Fitz-Martin (1801) / Anonymous -- The vindictive monk or the fatal Ring (1802) / Isaac Crookenden -- The nineteenth century: The astrologer's prediction or The maniac's fate (1826) / Anonymous -- Andreas Vesalius the anatomist (1833) / Petrus Borel -- Lady Eltringham or The castle of Ratcliffe Cross (1836) / J. Wadham -- The fall of the house of Usher (1839) / Edgar Allen Poe -- A chapter in the history of a Tyrone family (1839) / Sheridan Le Fanu -- Rappaccini's daughter (1844) / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Selina Sedilia (1865) / Bret Harte -- Jean-ah Poquelin (1875) / George Washington Cable -- Olalla (1885) / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Barbara of the House of Grebe (1891) / Thomas Hardy -- Bloody Blanche (1892) / Marcel Schwob -- The yellow wall-paper (1892) / Charlotte Perkins Stetson -- The adventure of the speckled band (1892) / Arthur Conan Doyle -- Hurst of Hurstcote (1893) / E. Nesbit -- The twentieth century: A vine on a house (1905) / Ambrose Bierce -- Jordan's end (1923) / Ellen Glasgow -- The outsider (1926) / H.P. Lovecraft -- A rose for Emily (1930) / William Faulkner -- A rendezvous in Averoigne (1931) -- Clark Ashton Smith -- The monkey (1934) / Isak Dinesen -- Miss de Mannering of Asham (1935) / F.M. Mayor -- The vampire of Kaldenstein (1938) / Frederick Cowles -- Clytie (1941) / Eudora Welty -- Sardonicus (1961) / Ray Russell -- The bloody countess (1968) / Alejandra Pizarnik -- The gospel according to Mark (1970) / Jorge Luis Borges -- The lady of the house of love (1979) / Angela Carter -- Secret observations on the goat-girl (1988) / Joyce Carol Oates -- Blood disease (1988) / Patrick McGrath -- If you touched my heart (1991) / Isabel Allende -- Notes.
Summary: Brimming with tales of terror, suspense, and the uncanny, this work offers the first collection devoted to the Gothic genre. Each story contains the common elements of the gothic tale--a warped sense of time, a claustrophobic setting, a link to archaic modes of thought, and the impression of a descent into disintegration. Yet taken together, they reveal the progression of the genre from stories of feudal villains amid crumbling ruins to a greater level of sophistication in which writers brought the gothic tale out of its medieval setting, and placed it in the contemporary world. Bringing together the work of such writers as Eudora Welty, Thomas Hardy, Edgar Allan Poe, William Faulkner, Arthur Conan Doyle, Joyce Carol Oates, and Jorge Luis Borges, The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales presents a wide array of the sinister and unsettling for all lovers of ghost stories, fantasy, and horror.
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Two Hour Reserve Two Hour Reserve Karen H. Huntsman Library Items Available at the Front Desk 808.8387 Ox23 1 Available 38060007522790

Gothic and Supernatural Lit Fall Semester

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Originally published: 1992.

Includes bibliographical references.

Beginnings: Sir Bertrand: A fragment (1773) / Anna Laetitia Aikin -- The poisoner of Montremos (1791) / Richard Cumberland -- The Friar's tale (1792) / Anonymous -- Raymond: A fragment (1799) / Juvenis -- The parricide punished (1799) / Anonymous -- The ruins of the Abbey of Fitz-Martin (1801) / Anonymous -- The vindictive monk or the fatal Ring (1802) / Isaac Crookenden -- The nineteenth century: The astrologer's prediction or The maniac's fate (1826) / Anonymous -- Andreas Vesalius the anatomist (1833) / Petrus Borel -- Lady Eltringham or The castle of Ratcliffe Cross (1836) / J. Wadham -- The fall of the house of Usher (1839) / Edgar Allen Poe -- A chapter in the history of a Tyrone family (1839) / Sheridan Le Fanu -- Rappaccini's daughter (1844) / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Selina Sedilia (1865) / Bret Harte -- Jean-ah Poquelin (1875) / George Washington Cable -- Olalla (1885) / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Barbara of the House of Grebe (1891) / Thomas Hardy -- Bloody Blanche (1892) / Marcel Schwob -- The yellow wall-paper (1892) / Charlotte Perkins Stetson -- The adventure of the speckled band (1892) / Arthur Conan Doyle -- Hurst of Hurstcote (1893) / E. Nesbit -- The twentieth century: A vine on a house (1905) / Ambrose Bierce -- Jordan's end (1923) / Ellen Glasgow -- The outsider (1926) / H.P. Lovecraft -- A rose for Emily (1930) / William Faulkner -- A rendezvous in Averoigne (1931) -- Clark Ashton Smith -- The monkey (1934) / Isak Dinesen -- Miss de Mannering of Asham (1935) / F.M. Mayor -- The vampire of Kaldenstein (1938) / Frederick Cowles -- Clytie (1941) / Eudora Welty -- Sardonicus (1961) / Ray Russell -- The bloody countess (1968) / Alejandra Pizarnik -- The gospel according to Mark (1970) / Jorge Luis Borges -- The lady of the house of love (1979) / Angela Carter -- Secret observations on the goat-girl (1988) / Joyce Carol Oates -- Blood disease (1988) / Patrick McGrath -- If you touched my heart (1991) / Isabel Allende -- Notes.

Brimming with tales of terror, suspense, and the uncanny, this work offers the first collection devoted to the Gothic genre. Each story contains the common elements of the gothic tale--a warped sense of time, a claustrophobic setting, a link to archaic modes of thought, and the impression of a descent into disintegration. Yet taken together, they reveal the progression of the genre from stories of feudal villains amid crumbling ruins to a greater level of sophistication in which writers brought the gothic tale out of its medieval setting, and placed it in the contemporary world. Bringing together the work of such writers as Eudora Welty, Thomas Hardy, Edgar Allan Poe, William Faulkner, Arthur Conan Doyle, Joyce Carol Oates, and Jorge Luis Borges, The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales presents a wide array of the sinister and unsettling for all lovers of ghost stories, fantasy, and horror.

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