| Description |
1 online resource (274 p.) |
| Series |
Gothic Literary Studies |
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Gothic literary studies.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Title -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures and Illustrations -- 1. Introduction: Dreadful Beginnings -- Section I: The Progression of Pennys -- or, Adaptations and Legacies of the Dreadful -- 2. Penny Pinching: Reassessing the Gothic Canon through Nineteenth-century Reprinting -- 3. 'As long as you are industrious, you will get on very well': Adapting The String of Pearls's Economies of Horror -- 4. 'Your lot is wretched, old man': Anxieties of Industry, Empire, and England in George Reynolds's Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf |
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Section II: Victorian Medical Sciences and Penny Fiction -- or, Dreadful Discourses of the Gothic -- 5. 'Embalmed pestilence', 'intoxicating poisons': Rhetoric of Contamination, Contagion, and the Gothic Marginalisation of Penny Dreadfuls by their Contemporary Critics -- 6. 'A Tale of the Plague': Anti-medical Sentiment and Epidemic Disease in Early Victorian Popular Gothic Fiction -- 7. 'Mistress of the Broomstick': Biology, Ecosemiotics and Monstrous Women in Wizard's The Wild Witch of the Heath -- or The Demon of the Glen -- Section III: Mode, Genre, and Style |
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Or, Gothic Storytelling and Ideologies -- 8. A Highwayman and a Ventriloquist Walk into an Inn ... Early Penny Romances and the Politics of Humour in Jack Rann and Valentine Vaux -- 9. Gothic Ideology and Religious Politics in James Malcolm Rymer's Penny Fiction -- 10. 'Muddling about among the dead': Found Manuscripts and Metafictional Storytelling in James Malcolm Rymer's Newgate: A Romance -- List of Referenced Penny Titles, Organised by Date -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover |
| Summary |
This collection aims to resurrect the long-forgotten penny dreadfuls and revivify their significance in Gothic studies |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Raine, Sophie
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| ISBN |
9781786839718 |
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1786839717 |
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