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RR 2015/062 The Victorian Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion Edited by Andrew Smith and William Hughes Edinburgh University Press Edinburgh 2012 vii + 258 pp. ISBN 978 0 7486 4249 6 (hbck); ISBN 978 0 7486 9116 6 (pbck); ISBN 978 0 7486 5497 0 (ePDF); ISBN 978 0 7486 5499 4 (ePub) £80 $130 (hbck); £19.99 $35 (pbck) Distributed in North America by Oxford University Press USA; paperback version released 2014
Keywords English literature, Nineteenth century
Review DOI 10.1108/RR-09-2014-0266
From picaresque fiction, through social realism, to the decadence of Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897), the Victorian period is characterised by literary transformations. Acknowledging the protean nature of the Gothic as a mode rather than a genre, this compact yet comprehensive volume is a substantial achievement. In their introduction, the editors, now senior academics in English at Glamorgan and Bath Spa Universities in the UK, respectively, strike a distinct balance which characterises this book as a whole, taking an epistemological approach while emphasising the transmutation or...