02510cam a2200289 4500 604390821 TxAuBib 20220907120000.0 ||||||s2011||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781848705371 1848705379 02a6e043-1909-4ac1-a99d-d0ba88d031b3 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1401489 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Blair, David. Gothic Short Stories [Libby]. Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 2011. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 567kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Classic Literature. Fiction. HTML:<p><strong>Selected and Edited with an Introduction and Notes by David Blair, University of Kent at Canterbury.</strong></p> <p>Late in the eighteenth century authors began to write 'Gothic' stories as a way of putting literature back in touch with the irrational, the supernatural and the bizarre, which had been neglected in the 'Age of Reason'.</p> <p>This superb new collection brings together stories from the earliest decades of Gothic writing with later 19th and early 20th century tales from the period in which Gothic diversified into the familiar forms of the ghost- and-horror-story. Work by writers such as Poe, Dickens, Hawthorne, Gaskell and M. R. James appears alongside that of anonymous writers from the start of the period and many lesser-known authors from Britain and America. Some of these stories, like the haunting 'The Lame Priest' are 'lost masterpieces' and several have never been anthologised before. Together they cover the spectrum of Gothic story-telling – tales of madness and violence, of shape-shifters and spectres, that express some of the deepest fears of the human mind – insanity, sexuality, death and the often terrible power of the past to catch up with the present.</p> <p>In a lively, authoritative introduction David Blair provides fresh insights and a detailed commentary on the stories' place in the complex traditions of Gothic writing in British and American literature.</p>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-09-07 20:00:03. Davies, David Stuart. https://samples.overdrive.com/gothic-short-stories?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/gothic-short-stories?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)