Volume I
Alphabetical List of Entries ix
Notes on Contributors xiii
Introduction xxxiii
The Gothic A–K 1–386
Volume II
Alphabetical List of Entries ix
Notes on Contributors xiii
The Gothic L–Z 387–757
Index 758
William Hughes is Professor of Gothic Studies at Bath SpaUniversity and, with Andrew Smith, Joint President of theInternational Gothic Association. His publications include thedefinitive bibliography of Bram Stoker s works (with RichardDalby, 2004) and the monograph Beyond Dracula (2000). Hughesis also the founding editor of Gothic Studies, the refereedjournal of the International Gothic Association. David Punter is Professor of English at the University ofBristol. His range and depth of critical work has been comparedwith that of Mario Praz and Edward Said. He has published sometwenty books on Gothic, Romantic, modern and contemporaryliterature, and on psychoanalytic and other literary theory; he hasalso published four small volumes of poetry. He is generallyrecognised as the founder of modern criticism of the Gothic, and asan inspiration behind contemporary Goth culture. Andrew Smith is Professor of English Studies at theUniversity of Glamorgan where he is Head of English and ModernLanguages. His books include The Ghost Story 1840-1920: ACultural History (2010), Gothic Literature (2007),Victorian Demons (2004), and Gothic Radicalism(2000). Smith, with William Hughes, is co-president of theInternational Gothic Association.
A substantial achievement ... An essential addition forhumanities libraries, particularly those with researchers active inGothic. (Reference Reviews, November2013) As a reference work that s firmly rooted in andactively devoted to expressing the current state of academicscholarship about its area, The Encyclopedia of theGothic shares all the virtues and shortcomings of that field,including any quirks of selective focus. It s quite valuablefor what it is and illuminating for what it isnot. (New York Journal of Books, February2013)
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