TY  - BOOK
AU  - Williams,Anne
TI  - Art of darkness: a poetics of Gothic 
SN  - 9780226899039 (electronic bk.)
AV  - PR448.G6 W55 1995eb
U1  - 823/.0872909 22
PY  - 1995///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Theory, etc
KW  - English literature
KW  - 18th century
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Horror tales, English
KW  - Romanticism
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Poetics
KW  - History
KW  - Gothic revival (Literature)
KW  - Littérature frénétique
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - Roman noir (Genre littéraire)
KW  - Récits d'horreur
KW  - Littérature anglaise
KW  - 18e siècle
KW  - 19e siècle
KW  - Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature
KW  - Romantisme
KW  - Grande-Bretagne
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - European
KW  - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Engels
KW  - gtt
KW  - Letterkunde
KW  - Gothic novel
KW  - ინგლისური ლიტერატურა
KW  - კრიტიკა
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-300) and index; Cover -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION Gothic Fiction's Family Romances -- Part One: Riding Nightmares; or, What's Novel about Gothic? -- ONE The Nightmare of History: Acting On and Acting Out -- TWO The House of Bluebeard: Gothic Engineering -- THREE Pope as Gothic "Novelist": Eloisa to Abelard -- FOUR Symbolization and Its Discontents -- FIVE The Nature of Gothic -- SIX Family Plots -- Part Two: Reading Nightmères; or, The Two Gothic Traditions -- SEVEN Nightmère's Milk: The Male and Female Formulas -- EIGHT Male Gothic: Si(g)ns of the Fathers -- NINE Demon Lovers: The Monk -- TEN Why Are Vampires Afraid of Garlic? Dracula -- ELEVEN The Female Plot of Gothic Fiction -- TWELVE The Male as "Other" -- THIRTEEN The Fiction of Feminine Desires: Not the Mirror but the Lamp -- FOURTEEN The Eighteenth-Century Psyche: The Mysteries of Udolpho -- Part Three: Writing in Gothic; or, Changing the Subject -- FIFTEEN Dispelling the Name of the Father -- SIXTEEN An "I" for an Eye: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner -- SEVENTEEN "Frost at Midnight": (M)others and Other Strangers -- EIGHTEEN Keats and the Names of the Mother -- EPILOGUE The Mysteries of Enlightenment; or, Dr. Freud's Gothic Novel -- APPENDIX A Inner and Outer Spaces: The Alien Trilogy -- APPENDIX B Gothic Families -- APPENDIX C The Female Plot of Gothic Fiction -- Bibliography -- Index
N2  - Art of Darkness is an ambitious attempt to describe the principles governing Gothic literature. Ranging across five centuries of fiction, drama, and verse?including tales as diverse as Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto, Shelley's Frankenstein, Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and Freud's The Mysteries of Enlightenment?Anne Williams proposes three new premises: that Gothic is "poetic," not novelistic, in nature; that there are two parallel Gothic traditions, Male and Female; and that the Gothic and the Romantic represent a single literary tradition. Building on the psy
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