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Easy to use, competently indexed, and fun to explore, this bibliography is an irresistible antidote for all forms of gothic snobbery. Recommended for gothophiliacs, gothophobiacs, and readers with idle nights and empty weekends.
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Gothic Novels of the Twentieth Century : An Annotated Bibliography
author
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Radcliffe, Elsa J.
publisher
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Scarecrow Press
isbn10 | asin
:
0810811901
print isbn13
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9780810811904
ebook isbn13
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9780585226361
language
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English
subject
American fiction--20th century--Bio-bibliography, English fiction--20th century--Bio-bibliography, Gothic revival (Literature)--Bibliography.
publication date
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1979
lcc
:
Z1231.F4R32 1979eb
ddc
:
016.823'0872
subject
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American fiction--20th century--Bio-bibliography, English fiction--20th century--Bio-bibliography, Gothic revival (Literature)--Bibliography.
Page i
Gothic Novels of the Twentieth Century
An Annotated Bibliography
by Elsa J. Radcliffe
The Scarecrow Press, Inc. Metuchen, N.J. & London 1979
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Radcliffe, Elsa J., 1935 Gothic novels of the twentieth century.
Includes index. 1. American fiction20th centuryBibliography. 2. Eng lish fiction20th centuryBibliography. 3. Gothic revival (Lit erature)Bibliography. I. Title. Z1231. F4R32 [PS379] 016. 823'0872 78-24357 ISBN 0-8108-1190-1
Copyright 1979 by Elsa J. Radcliffe
Manufactured in the United States of America
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Dedicated to all lovers of castles, ghosts, heroines, heroes and quests; and to my hero, Jim.
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Contents
Foreword
vii
Introduction
ix
List of References
xvii
The Bibliography
1
Index of Titles
247
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Foreword
Let those who smile at me, ask themselves whether they have been indebted most to imagination or reality for all they have enjoyed in life, if indeed they have ever enjoyed anything. C. R. Maturin, in Melmoth the Wanderer
Due to opinions instilled in me throughout my education, it was rather late in life that I came upon, via detective fiction, the literature called "Gothic. " I found, somewhat to my surprise, that these tales held a great appeal. The more I read, however, the more I became aware that between the covers of a book labeled "Gothic" one could find anything from a tale of mystery and detection, or sentimental and historical romance, to a "pure'' Gothic, and any quality from superb to utter nonsense. I further discovered that Gothic fiction in paperback editions is only a fraction of a huge body of literature which has been written ever since the 1760's by authors of greatly varied backgrounds and skills. For lovers of the Gothic genre, there is available an almost limitless amount of reading pleasure if one has some way to discover it.
Thus, it seemed that it could be most helpful to make available to the reading public a fairly comprehensive bibliography and to give some indication of relative quality to help the reader and librarian select from the mind-boggling quantity.
This bibliography may be of use some day in the distant future to scholars who, from my observations, appear to be interested in this type of literature only in retrospect, when it achieves the distinction of antiquity, if nothing more.
I wish to express my appreciation to the Shippensburg State College Library and in particular to Dr. Scott Bruntjen, whose tech-
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nical help and moral support were invaluable; and to Mrs. Barbara Taylor, whose help with interlibrary loans went far beyond any routine library service. I am also indebted to the Shippensburg, Pennsylvania Public Library's extensive paperback book collection, to the Coyle Free Library of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania and to the Public Library of Alexandria, Virginia.
E. J. R.
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Introduction
You serious people must not be too hard on human beings for what they choose to amuse themselves with when they are shut up as in a prison, and are not even allowed to say that they are prisoners. If I do not soon get a little bit of fun, I shall die. Pierre Andrezel, Introduction to The Angelic Avengers
When I first began reading contemporary Gothic fiction, the question, What is a Gothic? did not seem particularly complicated. Lovers of the form will know what I mean when I say that I came to "sense" Gothics without having to define them. But that explanation really won't do when one is trying to defend the inclusion or omission of works in a bibliography, so I went to the scholars of English literature to see what I could find.
It seems to be generally agreed that the first work to be called "Gothic" was Horace Walpole's Castle of Otranto, written in 1765. That book apparently began a fad and served as the direct model for an enormous number of stories, increasingly varied in theme, thereafter. The term "Gothic" was used to describe these books because they tended to romanticize the medieval period. These Gothic stories were the first to use suspense, the supernatural and romanticism of the medieval. Later, "the term [Gothic] lost all connotation of 'medieval,' and became synonymous for the grotesque, ghastly, and violently supernatural or superhuman in fiction. Gothic romance became the romance of the supernatural."1 According to Devendra Varma, science fiction, mystery-detective and spy fiction all had their origins in the Gothic era.2
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