Gothic literature

v. 1. Gothicism and Gothic Literature: An Overview

Sidebars: John Aikin (1747-1822) and Anna Laetitia (Aikin) Barbauld

Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)

Edmund Burke (1729?-1797)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)

Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

William Harrison Ainsworth (1805-1882)

Society, Culture, and the Gothic

Sidebars: Clara Reeve (1729-1807)

Sophia Lee (1750-1824)

Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)

Ray Bradbury (1920-)

Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?)

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) and "The Yellow Wallpaper"

Gothic Themes, Settings, and Figures

Sidebars: George Gordon Noel, Lord Byron (1788-1824)

John William Polidori (1795-1821)

H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937)

Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805)

Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-)

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) and "The Uncanny"

Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973)

Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-1849)

Performing Arts and the Gothic

Sidebars: James Boaden (1762-1839)

Clive Barker (1952-)

Boris Karloff (1887-1967) and Frankenstein

Bela Lugosi (1882-1956) and Dracula

Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980)

F. W. Murnau (1888-1931) and Nosferatu

Shirley Jackson (1919-1965)

Visual Arts and the Gothic

Sidebars: Suger of St. Denis (1081-1151)

William Blake (1757-1827)

Alexander Jackson Davis (1803-1892)

L. N. Cottingham (1787-1847)

Edward Gorey (1925-2000)

Washington Allston (1779-1843).

v. 2. Margaret Atwood 1939-

Sidebar: An excerpt from Lady Oracle

Jane Austen 1775-1817

Sidebar: Gothic "Extravagance" in Northanger Abbey

Joanna Baillie 1762-1851

Sidebars: A Death Notice in Harper's

A Reviewer Applauds Baillie's Talent

William Beckford 1760-1844

Sidebars: An excerpt from "Nymph of the Fountain," written c. 1791

An Early Review of Vathek

Byron Notes Vathek as a Source for Oriental Elements in The Giaour

Charlotte Bronte 1816-1855

Sidebars: William Dean Howells Lauds the Title Character of Jane Eyre

Susan M. Waring Praises Villette

Emily Bronte 1818-1848

Sidebars: H. F. Chorley's Negative Response to Wuthering Heights

Charlotte Bronte's Preface to the 1850 edition of Wuthering Heights

Charles Brockden Brown 1771-1810

Sidebars: William Hazlitt Assesses Brown's Literary Talent

John Keats on Wieland

Angela Carter 1940-1992

Sidebar: James Brockway on Carter's "Gothic Pyrotechnics" in Fireworks

Wilkie Collins 1824-1889

Sidebars: Geraldine Jewsbury on the Beauty of The Moonstone

T. S. Eliot on Collins and Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens Remarks to Wilkie Collins on Collins's Talent

Charles Dickens 1812-1870

Sidebars: Archibald C. Coolidge Jr. on Dickens's Childhood Memories and the Gothic

Michael Hollington on "Dickensian Gothic"

Isak Dinesen 1885-1962

Sidebar: John Updike on Dinesen's " Divine Swank" in Seven Gothic Tales

Daphne Du Maurier 1907-1989

Sidebar: Basil Davenport on Rebecca

William Faulkner 1897-1962

Sidebar: Max Putzel on Faulkner's Gothic

William Godwin 1756-1836

Sidebars: Edgar Allan Poe Reviews Godwin"s Lives of the Necromancers

An Excerpt from the Preface to Fleetwood

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749-1832

Sidebar: Sir Walter Scott's Translation of Goethe's "Der Erlkonig"

Nathanial Hawthorne 1804-1864

Sidebars: Edgar Allan Poe Reviews Hawthorne's Twice-Told Tales

Herman Melville Reviews Mosses from an Old Manse

E. T. A. Hoffman 1776-1822

Sidebars: Sir Walter Scott on Hoffmann's Talent and Mental State

Palmer Cobb on E. T. A. Hoffmann's Genius

James Hogg 1770-1835

Sidebar: George Saintsbury on The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

Washington Irving 1783-1859

Sidebar: Donald A. Ringe on Irving's use of the gothic

Henry James 1843-1916

Sidebar: Virginia Woolf on James's Ghost Stories

Stephen King 1947-

Sidebar: Edwin F. Casebeer on the Influence of King's Life on His Works.

v. 3. Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 1814-1873

Sidebars: S. M. Ellis on Le Fanu's Horror Fiction

Edna Kenton on Le Fanu's Legacy

Matthew Gregory Lewis 1775-1818

Sidebars: Lord Byron on "Monk"

Joseph James Irwin on Lewis's Mastery of Horror and Terror

Charles Robert Maturin 1780-1824

Sidebar: An Excerpt from an Early Review of Melmoth the Wanderer

Herman Melville 1819-1891

Sidebars: Jay MacPherson on Melville's "The Bell Tower" and Frankenstein

Excerpt from an Early Review of Moby-Dick

Toni Morrison 1931-

Sidebar: An Excerpt from the conclusion of Beloved

Joyce Carol Oates 1938-

Sidebars: Oates on the Grotesque

Oates on the Aesthetics of Fear

Edgar Allan Poe 1809-1849

Sidebars: D. H. Lawrence on the Purpose of Poe's Tales

H. P. Lovecraft on Poe's Literary Innovations

Ann Radcliffe 1764-1823

Sidebars: Sir Walter Scott on Radcliffe's Talent

Edith Birkhead on Radcliffe and the Gothic

Anne Rice 1941-

Sidebars: Angela Carter on Rice's Self-Consciousness

Rice on Her Fears of Pain and Death

Sir Walter Scott 1771-1832

Sidebar: William Hazlitt on Scott's Achievements as a Writer of Prose

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 1797-1851

Sidebars: Marilyn Butler on Shelley's Life and Its Impact on Frankenstein

Ellen Moers on Motherhood, the Female Gothic, and Frankenstein

Sir Walter Scott on Frankenstein

Robert Louis Stevenson 1850-1894

Sidebars: Stevenson's Dedication in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

John Addington Symonds on Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Bram Stoker 1847-1912

Sidebars: Montague Summers on the Enduring Nature of Dracula

Excerpt from An Early Review of Dracula

Horace Walpole 1717-1797

Sidebars: Frederick S. Frank on The Mysterious Mother

Sir Walter Scott Offers High Praise for Walpole

H. P. Lovecraft on Walpole's Influence on the Gothic

Edith Wharton 1862-1937

Sidebars: Annette Zilversmit on Wharton's "Pomegranate Seed"

Oscar Wilde 1854?-1900

Sidebar: Julian Hawthorne on The Picture of Dorian Gray.