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Gothic revival (Literature)

Here are entered works on the literary movement that spawned the genre known as Gothic fiction. Works on the genre itself, which combines elements of both horror and romance, featuring psychological and physical terror, the supernatural, castles or monasteries, ghosts, darkness, gloom and doom, etc., usually in a medieval setting, are entered under Gothic fiction (Literary genre).

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• Revival movements (Art)
• Romanticism
• Literary movements

• Gothic revival (Literature) -- England
• Gothic revival (Literature) -- Great Britain
• Gothic revival (Literature) -- History and criticism
• Gothic revival (Literature) -- Influence
• Gothic revival (Literature) -- Ireland
• Gothic revival (Literature) -- Periodicals
• Gothic revival (Literature) -- Scotland
• Gothic revival (Literature) -- United States

• The Dangerous Lover: Gothic Villains, Byronism, and The Nineteenth-Century Seduction Narrative (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Deborah Lutz (PDF from Ohio State University Press)

• The Fiction of the English Gothic Revival (thesis; Berkeley: University of California, 1910), by Kathrina Van Dervort (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Progress of Romance: Literary Historiography and the Gothic Novel (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1996), by David H. Richter (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Gothic Romance (dissertation in German; Leipzig: Buchdruckerei Grimme und Trömel, 1902), by Hans Reinhard Möbius
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Tale of Terror: A Study of the Gothic Romance (London: Constable and Co., 1921), by Edith Birkhead
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Ann Radcliffe in Relation to Her Time (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1920), by Clara Frances McIntyre (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Influence of Gothic Literature on Sir Walter Scott (Rostock, Germany: H. Winterberg's Buchdruckerei, 1902), by Walter Freye (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Gothic Technologies: Visuality in the Romantic Era (2005), ed. by Robert Miles (PDF at Romantic Circles)
• An Interview With Anne Mellor (2014), by Anne K. Mellor, ed. by Roxanne Eberle (HTML at Romantic Circles)
• Gothic Riffs: Secularizing the Uncanny in the European Imaginary, 1780-1820 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Diane Long Hoeveler (PDF at Ohio State)
• P.B. Shelley and the Delimitation of the Gothic (2015), ed. by David Brookshire (illustrated HTML at Romantic Circles)

• The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies (2006-) (full serial archives)

• Gothic Riffs: Secularizing the Uncanny in the European Imaginary, 1780-1820 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Diane Long Hoeveler (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Gothic Family Romance: Heterosexuality, Child Sacrifice, and the Anglo-Irish Colonial Order (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1999), by Margot Gayle Backus (page images at HathiTrust)

• Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net (with Romanticism on the Net; 1996-) (full serial archives)

• America's Gothic Fiction: The Legacy of Magnalia Christi Americana (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), by Dorothy Zayatz Baker (PDF at Ohio State)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Influence of Gothic Architecture Upon the Literature of the English Romantic Movement (Indiana University masters thesis, 1922), by Clara Van Nuys (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ornamental Architecture in the Gothic, Chinese and Modern Taste (London: Printed for R. Sayer, 1758), by Charles Over (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Cities Built to Music: Aesthetic Theories of the Victorian Gothic Revival (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1984), by Michael Bright
  • PDF at Ohio State
  • PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press

• Friedrich Gilly: Essays on Architecture, 1796-1799 (Santa Monica, CA: Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, c1994), by Friedrich Gilly, trans. by David Britt, contrib. by Fritz Neumeyer (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• Designing Paris: The Architecture of Duban, Labrouste, Duc, and Vaudoyer (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, c1987), by David Van Zanten (PDF files at MIT)

• Designing Paris: The Architecture of Duban, Labrouste, Duc, and Vaudoyer (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, c1987), by David Van Zanten (PDF files at MIT)

• Friedrich Gilly: Essays on Architecture, 1796-1799 (Santa Monica, CA: Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, c1994), by Friedrich Gilly, trans. by David Britt, contrib. by Fritz Neumeyer (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• The Works in Architecture of Robert and James Adam, Esquires (in English and French; London: Printed for the authors, 1773-1779), by Robert Adam and James Adam
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org

• The Arts Under Napoleon (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1978), by James David Draper (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Playing with Fire: European Terracotta Models, 1740-1840 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; Paris: Réunion des Musées Nationaux; New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004), ed. by James David Draper and Guilhem Scherf, contrib. by Magnus Olausson, E. V. Karpova, Bernhard Maaz, Roberta J. M. Olson, and Burkard von Roda (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• An Outline of Romanticism in the West (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2022), by John Claiborne Isbell (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Romantic Circles Praxis Series (1997-) (partial serial archives)
• Romantic Poetics of Public Feeling (2021), ed. by Lily Gurton-Wachter and Tristram Wolff (illustrated HTML at Romantic Circles)
• Romanticism and Time: Literary Temporalities (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2021), ed. by Sophie Laniel-Musitelli and Céline Sabiron (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Romanticism and Biopolitics (2012), ed. by Alastair Hunt and Matthias Rudolf (HTML at Romantic Circles)
• Romantic Sobriety: Sensation, Revolution, Commodification, History (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2011), by Orrin N. C. Wang (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Romantic Psyche and Psychoanalysis (2008), ed. by Joel Faflak (PDF at Romantic Circles)
• Romantic Gastronomies (2007), ed. by Denise Gigante (PDF at Romantic Circles)
• Romanticism and Buddhism (2007), ed. by Mark Lussier (PDF at Romantic Circles)
• Historicizing Romantic Sexuality (2006), ed. by Richard C. Sha (PDF at Romantic Circles)
• Romantic Theory: Forms of Reflexivity in the Revolutionary Era (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2006), by Leon Chai (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Romanticism and Patriotism: Nation, Empire, Bodies, Rhetoric (2006), ed. by Orrin N. C. Wang (PDF at Romantic Circles)
• Sullen Fires Across the Atlantic: Essays in Transatlantic Romanticism (2006), ed. by Lance Newman, Chris Koenig-Woodyard, and Joel Pace (PDF at Romantic Circles)
• Romanticism and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics (2003), ed. by Lisa Malinowski Steinman (PDF at Romantic Circles)
• Romanticism and Philosophy in an Historical Age (1999), ed. by Karen A. Weisman (PDF at Romantic Circles)
• Romanticism and the Law (1999), ed. by Michael Steven Macovski (HTML at Romantic Circles)
• Romantic Passions (1998), ed. by Elizabeth A. Fay (PDF at Romantic Circles)
• Romanticism and Conspiracy (1997), ed. by Orrin N. C. Wang (PDF at Romantic Circles)
• Romantic Libraries (2004), ed. by Ina Ferris (HTML at Romantic Circles)
• Re-Reading Box Hill: Reading the Practice of Reading Everyday Life (2000), ed. by William H. Galperin (PDF at Romantic Circles)
• The Last Formalist: or, W.J.T. Mitchell as Romantic Dinosaur (1997), by W. J. T. Mitchell, ed. by Orrin N. C. Wang (HTML at Romantic Circles)
• The Romantic Sublime: Studies in the Structure and Psychology of Transcendence (originally published 1976; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Thomas Weiskel (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• The Sublime and Education (2010), ed. by J. Jennifer Jones (PDF at Romantic Circles)
• Geoffrey Hartman and Harold Bloom: Two Interviews (2006), ed. by Orrin N. C. Wang, contrib. by Geoffrey H. Hartman, Harold Bloom, Marc Redfield, and Laura Quinney (PDF at Romantic Circles)
• Schelling and Romanticism (2000), ed. by David S. Ferris (PDF at Romantic Circles)
• Irony and Clerisy (1999), ed. by Deborah Elise White (PDF at Romantic Circles)
• The Dangerous Lover: Gothic Villains, Byronism, and The Nineteenth-Century Seduction Narrative (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Deborah Lutz (PDF from Ohio State University Press)
• Transatlantic Romanticism: An Anthology of British, American, and Canadian Literature, 1767-1867 (c2006), ed. by Lance Newman, Joel Pace, and Chris Koenig-Woodyard (PDF at Toronto)
• The "Honourable Characteristic of Poetry": Two Hundred Years of Lyrical Ballads (1999), ed. by Marcy L. Tanter (PDF at Romantic Circles)
• The Book-Bills of Narcissus (third edition, 1895), by Richard Le Gallienne (Gutenberg text)
• Pesymizm, Romantyzm a Podstawy Chrześcijaństwa (2 volumes in Polish; Krakow: Drukarni "Czasu", 1915), by Marjan Zdziechowski
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • Volume 1: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2: multiple formats at archive.org
• Politische Romantik (in German; Munich and Leipzig: Duncker und Humblot, 1919), by Carl Schmitt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Politische Romantik (second edition, in German; Munich and Leipzig: Duncker und Humblot, 1925), by Carl Schmitt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Rousseau and Romanticism (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1919), by Irving Babbitt (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Aesthetic and Miscellaneous Works of Friedrich von Schlegel: Comprising Letters on Christian Art; An Essay on Gothic Architecture; Remarks on the Romance-Poetry of the Middle Ages and on Shakspere; On the Limits of the Beautiful; On the Language and Wisdom of the Indians (London: H. G. Bohn, 1860), by Friedrich von Schlegel, trans. by E. J. Millington
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at Google

More items available under broader and related terms at left.