Art of Darkness: A Poetics of Gothic

by Anne Williams

Book Overview

Art of Darkness is an ambitious attempt to describe the principles governing Gothic literature. Ranging across five centuries of fiction, drama, and verse--including tales as diverse as Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto, Shelley's Frankenstein, Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and Freud's The Mysteries of Enlightenment--Anne Williams proposes three new premises: that Gothic is "poetic," not novelistic,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226899071
• ISBN13: 9780226899077
• Release Date: April 1995
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 319 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"