Late Victorian Gothic Tales
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Book Overview
The Victorian fin de siecle has many associations: the era of Decadence, The Yellow Book, the New Woman, the scandalous Oscar Wilde, the Empire on which the sun never set. This heady brew was caught nowhere better than in the revival of the Gothic tale in the late Victorian age, where the undead walked and evil curses, foul murder, doomed inheritance and sexual menace played on the stretched nerves of the new mass readerships. This anthology collects...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0199538875
ISBN13:9780199538874
Release Date:April 2009
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Length:336 Pages
Weight:0.56 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.0" x 7.7"
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
No self-respecting gothic literature fan should be without this!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
I collect Victorian Gothic stories and this is one of my favorites from my collection!! This book has a great sampling of the best gothic short stories written! It has Oscar Wilde's psychological thriller Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, Machen's classic The Great God Pan, and many other fantastic stories. Sheil's story, Vaila was particularly unnerving! He makes the reader feel like they are slowly descending into madness as he/she reads it!
A solid collection of late Victorian spookery
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
Luckhurst provides a thoughtful introduction to this collection of stories, but introduces an unnecessary eclecticism by including two French works.
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