The Handbook to Gothic Literature

LUCIE ARMITT Lecturer in English, University of Wales, Bangor CLIVE BLOOM Reader in English, Middlesex University, London FRED BOTTING Lecturer in English, Lancaster University ELIZABETH BRONFEN Professor of English, Zurich University STEVEN BRUHM Associate Professor in English, Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia CHARLES BUTLER Lecturer in Literary Studies, University of the West of England, Bristol AMARYLL BEATRICE CHANADY Professor in Comparative Literature, University of Montreal STEVE CLARK Lecturer in English, Osaka University EMMA CLERY Research Fellow, Sheffield Hallam University JOHN CLOY Librarian, John Davis Williams Library, University of Mississippi IAN CONRICH Lecturer in Film Studies, Brunel University NEIL CORNWELL Professor in Russian, University of Bristol JEFFREY N.COX Associate Professor in English, Texas A&M University ERIC HADLEY DENTON Associate Professor in English, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania MADGE DRESSER Principal Lecturer in Historical Studies, University of the West of England SION EIRIAN freelance writer, Cardiff U.A.FANTHORPE poet, Wootton-under-Edge BENJAMIN F.FISHER Associate Professor in English, University of Mississippi MICHAEL FRANKLIN Lecturer in English Studies, University of Wales, Cardiff KEN GELDER Associate Professor in English, University of Melbourne R.A.GILBERT writer and bookseller, Bristol ANTONIO BALLESTEROS GONZALEZ Lecturer in English, Universidad Autonoma, Madrid IAIN HAMILTON GRANT Lecturer in Cultural Studies, University of the West of England TERRY HALE Director, The British Centre for Literary Translation, University of East Anglia JERROLD E.HOGLE Associate Professor in English, University of Arizona, Tucson AVRIL HORNER Lecturer in English, Salford University CHRISTOPH HOUSWITSCHKA Lecturer in English, University of Dresden WILLIAM HUGHES Lecturer in English, Bath College of Higher Education ELIZABETH IMLAY writer and publisher, Speldhurst, Kent DARRYL JONES Lecturer in English, Trinity College, University of Dublin ELAINE JORDAN Senior Lecturer in English, University of Essex RICHARD KERRIDGE Lecturer in English, Bath College of Higher Education SALLY LEDGER Lecturer in English, Birkbeck College, University of London ROBERT LEE Professor in English, Nihon University, Japan TIM LUSTIG Lecturer in American Studies, Keele University DOUGLAS MACK Senior Lecturer in English, University of Stirling CECILE MALET-DAGREOU Postgraduate student in English, Goldsmiths College, University of London PHILIP MARTIN Head of Humanities, Cheltenham, and Gloucester College, Cheltenham J.M.MCCORMACK Senior Lecturer in English, Goldsmiths College, University of London ALISON MILBANK writer, Cambridge ROBERT MILES Reader in English, Sheffield Hallam University PASCAL NICKLAS Lecturer in English, Leipzig University, Germany GRAHAM OVENDEN artist, Cornwall DAVID PUNTER Professor in English Studies, University of Stirling TINA RATH writer and postgraduate student, Royal College of Holloway and Bedford, London FAYE RINGEL Associate Professor in English, US Coast Guard Academy, New London, USA VICTOR SAGE Reader in English and American Studies, University of East Anglia NEIL SAMMELLS Head of English, Bath College of Higher Education DAVID SEED Lecturer in English, Liverpool University HELEN SMALL Lecturer in English, Pembroke College, Oxford HELEN STODDART Lecturer in English, Keele University JANET TODD Professor in English and American Literature, University of East Anglia ANN TRACY Associate Professor in English, State University of New York at Plattsburgh GERRY TURCOTTE Senior Lecturer in English Studies, Wollongong University, Australia THOMAS TILLARD Associate Professor in English, University of Arizona, Tucson MARY WALDRON Lecturer in Continuing Education, University of Exeter CAROLYN D.WILLIAMS Senior Lecturer in English, University of Reading

Not only does it plot the national characteristics of Gothic as in the French school of terror, Frenetique to American Gothic, but it also spans the period from Ann Radcliffe to Anne Rice.What do we mean by the term 'Gothic'? How does it differ from such classifications as 'terror' and 'horror' and where do its parameters lie? In an attempt to define such an elusive term, this A-Z unearths the terminologies associated with Gothic through a variety of short essays written by leading scholars. Not only does it plot the national characteristics of Gothic as in the French school of terror, Frenetique to American Gothic, but it also spans the period from Ann Radcliffe to Anne Rice.