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Author: David Punter (University of Bristol, UK)
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell
Dimensions:
Width: 16.80cm
, Height: 3.30cm
, Length: 24.10cm
Weight: 0.953kg
ISBN: 9781119062509
ISBN 10: 1119062500
Pages: 576
Publication Date: 04 September 2015
Audience:
College/higher education
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
From reviews of the previous edition: A Companion to the Gothic offers a range of strategies for understanding the genre, and is an excellent resource for students, teachers, and scholars of the Gothic. Gothic Studies The obvious value of ... A Companion to the Gothic is its wealth of critical approaches from good, old-fashioned history of ideas readings to the most sophisticated of recent theory. Romanticism on the Net The book does not offer a house view of what Gothic is, but instead faithfully reproduces the status of current debates on the relevant genres. Many essays provide useful summaries of criticism or of primary texts; others offer new critical insights. Times Higher Education The individual essays are narrow enough to describe discrete topics but useful to newcomer and scholar alike Punter's volume is sure to be a standard reference for some time to come for undergraduates and scholars. Choice Anyone lucky enough to have this volume sitting on their shelves has instant access to the recent thinking of a long list of scholars who have led the way in Gothic studies. The book is a veritable Baedeker's guide that ranges from the historical Goths of the third century to Stephen King in the twentieth century; that explores dimensions of Gothic through painting and cinema, as well as written texts; that roams across Europe and America as well as the British Isles. Punter himself contributes a concise but stimulating introduction. Studies in Hogg and His World
From reviews of the previous edition: It offers a range of strategies for understanding the genre, and is an excellent resource for students, teachers, and scholars of the Gothic. Gothic Studies [Its] obvious value ... is its wealth of critical approaches - from good, old-fashioned 'history of ideas' readings to the most sophisticated of recent theory. Romanticism on the Net The book does not offer a house view of what Gothic is, but instead faithfully reproduces the status of current debates on the relevant genres. Many essays provide useful summaries of criticism or of primary texts; others offer new critical insights. Times Higher Education The individual essays are narrow enough to describe discrete topics but useful to newcomer and scholar alike ... Punter's volume is sure to be a standard reference for some time to come for undergraduates and scholars. Choice Anyone lucky enough to have this volume sitting on their shelves has instant access to the recent thinking of a long list of scholars who have led the way in Gothic studies. The book is a veritable Baedeker's guide that ranges from the historical Goths of the third century to Stephen King in the twentieth century; that explores dimensions of Gothic through painting and cinema, as well as written texts; that roams across Europe and America as well as the British Isles. Punter himself contributes a concise but stimulating introduction. Studies in Hogg and His World
<p>From reviews of the previous edition: <p> It offers a range of strategies for understanding the genre, and is an excellent resource for students, teachers, and scholars of the Gothic. Gothic Studies <p> [Its] obvious value ... is its wealth of critical approaches from good, old-fashioned history of ideas readings to the most sophisticated of recent theory. Romanticism on the Net <p> The book does not offer a house view of what Gothic is, but instead faithfully reproduces the status of current debates on the relevant genres. Many essays provide useful summaries of criticism or of primary texts; others offer new critical insights. Times Higher Education <p> The individual essays are narrow enough to describe discrete topics but useful to newcomer and scholar alike Punter's volume is sure to be a standard reference for some time to come for undergraduates and scholars. Choice <p> Anyone lucky enough to have this volume sitting on their shelves has instant access to the recent thinking of a long list of scholars who have led the way in Gothic studies. The book is a veritable Baedeker's guide that ranges from the historical Goths of the third century to Stephen King in the twentieth century; that explores dimensions of Gothic through painting and cinema, as well as written texts; that roams across Europe and America as well as the British Isles. Punter himself contributes a concise but stimulating introduction. Studies in Hogg and His World <p>
<p>From reviews of the previous edition: <p> A Companion to the Gothic offers a range of strategies for understanding the genre, and is an excellent resource for students, teachers, and scholars of the Gothic. Gothic Studies <p> The obvious value of ... A Companion to the Gothic is its wealth of critical approaches from good, old-fashioned history of ideas readings to the most sophisticated of recent theory. Romanticism on the Net <p> The book does not offer a house view of what Gothic is, but instead faithfully reproduces the status of current debates on the relevant genres. Many essays provide useful summaries of criticism or of primary texts; others offer new critical insights. Times Higher Education <p> The individual essays are narrow enough to describe discrete topics but useful to newcomer and scholar alike Punter's volume is sure to be a standard reference for some time to come for undergraduates and scholars. Choice <p> Anyone lucky enough to have this volume sitting on their shelves has instant access to the recent thinking of a long list of scholars who have led the way in Gothic studies. The book is a veritable Baedeker's guide that ranges from the historical Goths of the third century to Stephen King in the twentieth century; that explores dimensions of Gothic through painting and cinema, as well as written texts; that roams across Europe and America as well as the British Isles. Punter himself contributes a concise but stimulating introduction. Studies in Hogg and His World <p>
The Gothic is now ubiquitous in post-millennial American popular culture, according to Victoria Nelson. ( Times Literary Supplement, 16 November 2012)Reviews for the previous edition The obvious value of ... A Companion to the Gothic is its wealth of critical approaches--from good, old-fashioned history of ideas readings to the most sophisticated of recent theory. ( Romanticism on the Net, November 2000) Anyone lucky enough to have this volume sitting on their shelves has instant access to the recent thinking of a long list of scholars who have led the way in Gothic studies. The book is a veritable Baedecker's guide that ranges from the historical Goths of the third century to Stephen King in the twentieth century; that explores dimensions of Gothic through painting and cinema, as well as written texts; that roams across Europe and America as well as the British Isles. Punter himself contributes a concise but stimulating introduction. ( Studies in Hogg and His World ) The individual essays are narrow enough to describe discrete topics but useful to newcomer and scolar alike. Punter's volume is sure to be a standard reference for some time to come for undergraduates and scholars. ( Choice ) The book does not offer a house view of what Gothic is, but instead faithfully reproduces the status of current debates on the relevant genres. Many essays provide useful summaries of criticism or of primary texts; others offer new critical insights. ( Times Higher Education Supplement ) Without foreclosing interpretative possibilities ... A Companion to the Gothic offers a range of strategies for understanding the genre, and is an excellent resource for students, teachers, and scholars of the Gothic. ( Gothic Studies )
Author Information
David Punter is Professor of English at the University of Bristol. He has written extensively on Gothic, romantic, and modern literature, literary theory, and psychoanalysis, as well as producing four volumes of poetry. His recent publications include The Gothic (with Glennis Byron, Blackwell, 2004), Metaphor (2007), Modernity (2007), and Rapture: Literature, Addiction, Secrecy (2009).
