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Author:   Nicole C. Dittmer ,  Sophie Raine
Publisher:   University of Wales Press
Imprint:   University of Wales Press
ISBN:  

9781786839701

ISBN 10:   1786839709
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   15 February 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors List of Figures and Illustrations 1. Introduction: Dreadful Beginnings Dr Nicole C. Dittmer and Sophie Raine Section One: The Progression of Pennys; or, Adaptations and Legacies of the Dreadful 2. Penny Pinching: Reassessing the Gothic canon through nineteenth-century reprinting Hannah-Freya Blake and Marie Leger-St-Jean 3. As long as you are industrious, you will get on very well : adapting The String of Pearls' economies of horror Bronte Schiltz 4. Your lot is wretched, old man : Anxieties of Industry, Empire and England in George Reynolds's Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf Dr Hannah Priest Section Two: Victorian Medical Sciences and Penny fiction; or, Dreadful Discourses of the Gothic 5. 'Embalmed pestilence', 'intoxicating poisons': Rhetoric of contamination, contagion, and the Gothic marginalisation of penny dreadfuls by their contemporary critics Manon Burz-Labrande 6. A Tale of the Plague : anti-medical sentiment and epidemic disease in early Victorian popular Gothic fiction Joseph Crawford 7. Mistress of the broomstick : Biology, Ecosemiotics, and Monstrous Women in Wizard's The Wild Witch of the Heath; or the Demon of the Glen Dr Nicole C. Dittmer Section Three: Mode, Genre, and Style; or, Gothic Storytelling and Ideologies 8. A Ventriloquist and a Highwayman Walk into an Inn... Early Penny Bloods and the Politics of Humour in Jack Rann and Valentine Vaux Celine Frohn 9. Gothic Ideology and Religious Politics in James Malcolm Rymer's Penny Fiction Dr Rebecca Nesvet 10. Muddling about among the dead : found manuscripts and metafictional storytelling in James Malcolm Rymer's Newgate: A Romance Sophie Raine List of Referenced Penny Titles Bibliography Index

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""This is an important new volume of literary criticism that pays attention to the class dimension of the history of the Gothic. Dittmer and Raine have assembled and curated vital work on an under-researched aspect of Gothic literature that addresses misconceptions, stereotypes and literary snobbery, and provides fresh insights into the ways gothic tropes, narratives and techniques were developed through mass market periodicals and penny papers. The editors provide a deftly-written and rigorous introduction to this research, and the chapters taken together offer a lively conversation opening new avenues of enquiry for gothic scholars. This is a must-read for those interested in the history of the Gothic, especially in relation to social class, as well as anyone keen to learn about the publication contexts of nineteenth-century literature more broadly.""-- ""Chloé Germaine, Senior Lecturer in English, Manchester Metropolitan University""

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This edited collection is suitable for upper-level graduate students; postgraduate students; independent scholars and researchers; and academics and have widespread appeal to a general readership.

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