Literature of Terror: Volume 1

<p>The first edition was regarded as the definitive survey of Gothic and related terror writing in English. No other text considers this genre on such a scale and covers the theoretical perspectives so comprehensively. In the latest edition the broad range of theoretical perspectives has been enlarged to include modern critical theories. <em>Volume One</em> is a thoroughly updated edition of the original text covering the period from 1765 up to the Edwardian age exploring the richness and literary diversity of the gothic form: from the original eighteenth-century gothic of Ann Radcliffe to the melodramatic fiction of Wilkie Collins.</p>