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 together some of the most famous examples of the Gothic tale in the 1890s, with stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, Vernon Lee, Henry James and Arthur Late Victorian Gothic Tales - Roger Luckhurst od authora Roger Luckhurst a nakladatelství za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Martinus. cz.
Autor |
Roger Luckhurst |
Jazyk |
anglický |
Počet stran |
336 |
Rok vydání |
2009 |
Nakladatelství |
Oxford University Press |