Bøker av Angela Wright

Mary Shelley provides a detailed study of the famous author's extensive contribution to the Gothic genre. Angela Wright examines the key novels alongside the short stories, revealing how the Gothic themes and motifs that energised Frankenstein resurface in some of Shelley's later works.

Focuses upon Gothic fiction produced predominantly in the Romantic era (1780-1820). This title assembles some of the critical writings about Romantic Gothic literature since its inception. It begins by charting the moral and political panic provoked by Gothic's popularity in the 1790s, and then examines the genre's recuperation.