Critical introductions to a range of literary topics and genres. The gothic influence on modern writers such as Angela Carter, Iain Banks and Stephen King is vivid and great as is the effect on the world of film and rock music. Part of the function of this book is to offer some guidance: not in terms of a fixed or definitive set of Gothic characteristics, but rather in giving a framework for questions and explorations.

 

This book is part of a book series called Cambridge Contexts in Literature .

There are 130 pages in this book. This book was published 2000 by Cambridge University Press .

David Stevens is a subject tutor for the secondary English course at the University of Durham, UK.

This book has the following chapters: Introduction; 1. Approaching the gothic tradition; 2. Approaching the texts; 3. Texts and extracts; 4. Critical approaches; 5. How to write about the gothic; 6. Resources.