Late Victorian Gothic Tales (Oxford World's Classics)
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Editor: Roger LuckhurstEdition: Paperback
Published: 2005-08-18
ISBN: 0192804804
Number of pages: 326
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Book Review: Good Collection
Summary: 4 Stars
I really have enjoyed this collection of Gothic short stories and novellas. Some are more interesting than others. I especially enjoyed The Spectral Hand, Olalla and Edmund Orne. I recommend this to anyone who enjoys literature of the Gothic Genre, but doesn't necessarily have all the time in the world to read long novels.
Summary of Late Victorian Gothic Tales (Oxford World's Classics)
The Victorian fin de siecle has many associations: the era of Decadence, The Yellow Book, the New Woman, the scandalous Oscar Wilde, the Empire on which the sun never set. This heady brew was caught nowhere better than in the revival of the Gothic tale in the late Victorian age, where the undead walked and evil curses, foul murder, doomed inheritance and sexual menace played on the stretched nerves of the new mass readerships. This anthology collects together some of the most famous examples of the Gothic tale in the 1890s, with stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, Vernon Lee, Henry James and Arthur Machen, as well as some lesser known yet superbly chilling tales from the era. The introduction explores the many reasons for the Gothic revival, and how it spoke to the anxieties of the moment.Anthologies Books
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