The Palgrave Handbook of Steam Age Gothic

by Clive Bloom

Book Overview

By the early 1830s the old school of Gothic literature was exhausted. Late Romanticism, emphasising as it did the uncertainties of personality and imagination, gave it a new lease of life. Gothic-the literature of disturbance and uncertainty-now produced works that reflected domestic fears, sexual crimes, drug filled hallucinations, the terrible secrets of middle class marriage, imperial horror at alien invasion, occult demonism and the insanity...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 303040868X
• ISBN13: 9783030408688
• Release Date: February 2022
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 867 Pages
• Weight: 2.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"