The Literature of Terror; A History of Gothic Fictions from 1765 to the Present Day, Volume 2: The Modern Gothic

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The Literature of Terror: The Modern Gothic is the second volume in David Punter's impressive survey of gothic writing covering over two centuries. This long awaited second edition has been expanded to take into account the latest critical research, and is now published in two volumes. Volume One covers the period from 1765 to the Edwardian age while Volume Two discusses modern gothic, starting with the 'decadent' gothic writing of Oscar Wilde and continuing through the twentieth century. Preface to the first edition Preface to the second edition Acknowledgements 1 Gothic and decadence 2 Later American Gothic 3 The ambivalence of memory 4 Formalism and meaning in the ghost story 5 Gothic in the horror film 1930-1980 6 Modern perceptions of the barbaric 7 Contemporary Gothic transformations 8 Mutations of terror: theory and the Gothic Bibliography Index