Provides an overview of the most significant issues and debates in Gothic studies. Explains the origins and development of the term Gothic. Explores the evolution of the Gothic in both literary and non literary forms, including art, architecture and film. Presents an overview of significant issues and debates in Gothic studies. This book explains the origins and development of the term Gothic. It explores the evolution of the Gothic in both literary and non-literary forms, including art, architecture and film. How to Use This Book.Chronology.Introduction.Backgrounds and Contexts.Civilisation and the Goths.Gothic in the Eighteenth Century.Gothic and Romantic.Science, Industry and the Gothic.Victorian Gothic.Art and Architecture.Gothic and Decadence.Imperial Gothic.Gothic Postmodernism.Postcolonial Gothic.Goths and Gothic Subcultures.Gothic Film.Gothic and the Graphic Novel.Writers of Gothic.William Harrison Ainsworth (1805 82).Jane Austen (1775 1817).J. G. Ballard (1930 ).Iain Banks (1954 ).John Banville (1945 ).Clive Barker (1952 ).William Beckford (1760 1844).E. F. Benson (1867 1940).Ambrose Bierce (1842 1914).Algernon Blackwood (1869 1951).Robert Bloch (1917 1994).Elizabeth Bowen (1899 1973).Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835 1915).Charlotte Brontë (1816 1855) and Emily Brontë (1818 1848).Charles Brockden Brown (1771 1810).Edward George Bulwer Lytton (1803 1873).James Branch Cabell (1879 1958).Ramsey Campbell (1946 ).Angela Carter (1940 1992).Robert W. Chambers (1865 1933).Wilkie Collins (1824 1889).Marie Corelli (1855 1924).Charlotte Dacre (1771/1772? 1825).Walter de la Mare (1873 1956).August Derleth (1909 1971).Charles Dickens (1812 1870). Isak Dinesen (1885 1962).Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 1930).Lord Dunsany (1878 1957).Bret Easton Ellis (1964 ).William Faulkner (1897 1962).Elizabeth Gaskell (1810 1865).William Gibson (1948 ).William Godwin (1756 1836).H. Rider Haggard (1856 1925).Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 1864).James Herbert (1943 ).William Hope Hodgson (1877 1918).E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776 1822).James Hogg (1770 1835).Washington Irving (1783 1859).G. P. R. James (1799 1860).Henry James (1843 1916).M. R. James (1862 1936).Stephen King (1947 ).Rudyard Kipling (1865 1936).Francis Lathom (1777 1832).J. Sheridan Le Fanu (1814 1873).Sophia Lee (1750 1824).Vernon Lee (1856 1935).M. G. Lewis (1775 1818).David Lindsay (1878 1945).H. P. Lovecraft (1890 1937).George MacDonald (1824 1905).Arthur Machen (1863 1947).James Macpherson (1736 1796).Richard Matheson (1926 ).Charles Robert Maturin (1780 1824).Herman Melville (1819 1891).Joyce Carol Oates (1938 ).Margaret Oliphant (1828 1897).Mervyn Peake (1911 1968).Edgar Allan Poe (1809 1849).John Polidori (1795 1821).Radcliffe, Ann (1764 1823).Reeve, Clara (1729 1807).G. W. M. Reynolds (1814 1879).Anne Rice (1941 ).Walter Scott (1771 1832).Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797 1851).Charlotte Smith (1740 1806).Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 1894).Bram Stoker (1847 1912).Horace Walpole (1717 1797).H. G. Wells (1866 1946).Edith Wharton (1862 1937).Oscar Wilde (1854 1900).Key Works.Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto (1764).William Beckford, Vathek (1786).Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794).William Godwin, Caleb Williams (1794).M. G. Lewis, The Monk (1796).Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (1818, revised 1831).C. R. Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer (1820).James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824).Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights (1847).Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White (1860).Sheridan Le Fanu, Uncle Silas (1864).Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886).Bram Stoker, Dracula (1897).Henry James, The Turn of the Screw (1898).Robert Bloch, Psycho (1959).Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire (1976).Stephen King, The Shining (1977).Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho (1991).Themes and Topics.The Haunted Castle.The Monster.The Vampire.Persecution and Paranoia.Female Gothic.The Uncanny.The History of Abuse.Hallucination and the Narcotic.Guide to Further Reading.Index