| 书目名称 | The Palgrave Handbook of Steam Age Gothic | | 编辑 | Clive Bloom | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Provides a comprehensive overview, exploring every aspect of gothic culture from its origins in the seventeenth century right up to 2019.Offers cutting edge analysis of modern gothic through contempor | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | .By the early 1830s the old school of Gothic literature was exhausted. Late Romanticism, emphasising as it did the uncertainties of personality and imagination, gave it a new lease of life. Gothic—the literature of disturbance and uncertainty—now produced works that reflected domestic fears, sexual crimes, drug filled hallucinations, the terrible secrets of middle class marriage, imperial horror at alien invasion, occult demonism and the insanity of psychopaths. It was from the 1830s onwards that the old gothic castle gave way to the country house drawing room, the dungeon was displaced by the sewers of the city and the villains of early novels became the familiar figures of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Dracula, Dorian Grey and Jack the Ripper. After the death of Prince Albert (1861), the Gothic became darker, more morbid, obsessed with demonic lovers, blood sucking ghouls, blood stained murderers and deranged doctors. Whilst the gothic architecture of the Houses of Parliament and the new Puginesque churches upheld a Victorian ideal of sobriety, Christianity and imperial destiny, Gothic literature filed these new spaces with a dread that spread like a plague to America, France, Germany a | | 出版日期 | Book 2021 | | 关键词 | Gothic; Film; Literature; Television; Culture; Gothic fiction | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40866-4 | | isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-40868-8 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-40866-4 | | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2021 |
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