Late Victorian Gothic Tales

Name: Late Victorian Gothic Tales
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ISBN: 9780192804808

ISBN-10: 0192804804

ISBN-13: 9780192804808

Edition: 2005

Authors: Roger Luckhurst

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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…

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List price: $15.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/18/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.08" wide x 7.72" long x 0.62" tall
Weight: 0.616
Language: English

Roger Luckhurst is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Literature at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK.



Introduction


Note on Sources


Note on Illustrations


Select Bibliography


A Chronology of the 1890s


Dionea



Lord Arthur Savile's Crime



Sir Edmund Orme



The Mark of the Beast



The Dak Bungalow at Dakor



Lot No. 249



The Case of Lady Sannox



Pallinghurst Barrow



Magic Lantern



The Spectral Hand



The Great God Pan



Vaila



Explanatory Notes