
The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales
Première publication en 1992 · 533 pages
À propos de ce livre
Part 1 Beginnings: "Sir Bertrand - A Fragment" (1773), Anna Laetitia Aiken "The Poisoner of Montremos" (1791), Richard Cumberland "The Friar's Tale" (1792), Anonymous "Raymond - A Fragment (1799), "Juvenis" "The Parricide Punished" (1799), Anonymous "The Ruins of the Abbey of Fitz-Martin" (1801), Anonymous "The Vindictive Monk, or The Fatal Ring" (1802), Isaac Crookenden.
Part 2 The 19th century: "The Astrologer's Prediction or the Maniac's Fate" (1826), Anonymous "Andreas Vesalius the Anatomist" (1833), Petrus Borel "Lady Eltringham or The Castle of Ratcliffe Cross" (1836), J. Wadham "The Fall of the House of Usher" (1839), Edgar Allan Poe "A Chapter in the History of the Tyrone Family" (1839), Sheridan Le Fanu "Rappacini's Daughter" (1844), Nathaniel Hawthorne "Selina Sedilia" (1865), Bret Harte "Jean-Ah Poquelin" (1875), George Washington Cable "Olalla" (1885), Robert Louis Stevenson "Barbara of the House of Grebe" (1891), Thomas Hardy "Bloody Blanche" (1892), Marcel Schwob "The Yellow Wall-Paper" (1892), Charlotte Perkins Stetson "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" (1892), Arthur Conan Doyle "Hurst of Hurstcote" (1893), E. Nesbit.
Part 3 The 20th century: "A Vine on the House" (1905), Ambrose Bierce "Jordan's End" (1923), Ellen Glasgow "The Outsider" (1926), H.P. Lovecraft "A Rose for Emily" (1930), William Faulkner "A Rendezvous in Averoigne" (1931), Clark Ashton Smith "The Monkey" (1934), Isak Dinesen "Miss De Mannering of Asham" (1935), F.M.
- tradition
- change
- death
- short stories
- allegory
- nonlinear narrative
- gentleman's agreements
- recluses
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