Publication Date
2012
Document Type
Book
Editor
Katherine D. Harris
Abstract
This collection of gothic short stories takes us further than perhaps eighteenth or nineteenth-century scholars are comfortable with – to extend our discussions about the Gothic in such a way that the tradition does not die at 1820, as is purported by Robert Mayo. We will, however, move past the deaths of Shelley, Keats and Byron – the spokespersons for the second wave of traditional Romanticism. Queen Victoria won’t ascend to the throne for another six years, and Tennyson has not yet become the powerhouse poet who will eventually rise to Poet Laureate of England. Scholars touted 1820-1830 as a “dead zone” – without any literary guiding light. However, many studies have shown that the magazines were filled with literary fodder, more specifically, the Gothic short story.
Creative Commons License
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Department
Art and Art History; Humanities
Recommended Citation
Katherine D. Harris Ph.D.. "The Forgotten Gothic: Short Stories from the British Literary Annuals, 1823-1831" Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity (2012).
