David Punter
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 978565 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | David Punter |
| NOMBRES | David |
| APELLIDO | Punter |
| FIRMA | PUNTER D |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Bristol |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9683-5501 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 4 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1982 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Reflections on sublation
Well, 1400 words, which is not very many in terms of what might be said, and yet is perfectly fitted to our time schedule, it seems, and in keeping to this maximum I find I need also to be thinking
The Ghosts of Lockdown
Masques of the Red Death
The title of this short essay comes, of course, from Poe’s very short story, ‘The Masque of the Red Death’, which has once again become a tale for our times. It tells, as is well-known, of a plague or pestilence – none had previously been, so Poe tells us, ‘so fatal, or so hideous’. In the face of this disaster, the no doubt aptly named Prince Prospero retreats to his magnificent palace with a ‘small’ party of a thousand guests and they proceed t…
Postcolonial Imaginings
This deeply engaging, historically and culturally informed book provides new perspectives on a wide range of writers, and at the same time provides a radically new development of many of the most pertinent issues in the field of postcolonial writing and theory. It constitutes a major new engagement between the 'postcolonial' and a conception of the literary which is richly innovative in its deployment of psychoanalytic, deconstructive and other a…
Postcolonial Imaginings
The Cambridge Companion to ‘Frankenstein
The Cambridge Companion to Frankenstein consists of sixteen original essays on Mary Shelley's novel by leading scholars, providing an invaluable introduction to Frankenstein and its various critical contexts. Theoretically informed but accessibly written, this volume relates Frankenstein to various social, literary, scientific and historical contexts, and outlines how critical theories such as ecocriticism, posthumanism, and queer theory generate…
The Literature of Terror
The Literature of Terror: the Modern Gothic is the second volume in David Punter's impressive survey of gothic writing covering over two centuries. This long awaited second edition has been expanded to take into account the latest critical research, and is now published in two volumes. Volume One covers the period from 1765 to the Edwardian age while Volume Two discusses modern gothic, starting with the 'decadent' gothic writing of Oscar Wilde an…
A New Companion to the Gothic
The Encyclopedia of the Gothic
John Buchan and Wilson Harris
Pity
Research Article| March 01 2010 Pity: Reflections on Algernon Blackwood's Gothic David Punter David Punter University of Bristol [email protected] David Punter is professor of English at the University of Bristol, UK. He has previously held posts at the University of East Anglia, UK; Fudan University, Shanghai, China; the Chinese University of Hong Kong; and the University of Stirling, UK. He is the author of numerous books on Gothic and…
Gothic Terms, Themes, Concepts and Contexts
Just as THE UNCANNY offers a connection to the structure of the unconscious, the abject offers a sensation of horror that connects us viscerally to the experience of repression and the process of subject formation. For Julia Kristeva, in Powers of Horror, abjection disturbs ‘identity, system, order’ and is characterised by ‘the in-between, the ambiguous, the composite’.
Writers of Gothic
Ainsworth made his first venture into sensational fiction with ‘The Test of Affection’ (European Magazine, 1822), a tale that relies heavily on artificial ‘SUPERNATURAL’ devices in the ANN RADCLIFFE mode for its effect. It was followed by ‘The Spectre Bride’ (Arliss’s Pocket Magazine, 1822) and his early Gothic tales were collected in his first book, the anonymous December Tales (1823). All of this youthful work — which displays more enthusiasm t…
Terrorism and the Uncanny, or, The Caves of Tora Bora
To address the notions of terrorism and the uncanny requires a thinking in terms of the unfamiliar, or more specifically of that which brings the unfamiliar into the heartland (or, as we might now refer to it in the era of ‘homeland security’, the homeland) of the family. We might be familiar with the headline ‘Terrorists are also family men’; perhaps less so with the equally thinkable proposal, ‘Family men are also terrorists’ — or, indeed, and …
The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction
Gothic as a form of fiction-making has played a major role in Western culture since the late eighteenth century. In this volume, fourteen world-class experts on the Gothic provide thorough and revealing accounts of this haunting-to-horrifying type of fiction from the 1760s (the decade of The Castle of Otranto, the first so-called 'Gothic story') to the end of the twentieth century (an era haunted by filmed and computerized Gothic simulations). Al…
E‐textuality
A Companion to the Gothic
Introduction: The Ghost of a History. Notes on Contributors. PART ONE. GOTHIC BACKGROUNDS. 1. In Gothic Darkly: Heterotopia, History, Culture (Fred Botting). 2. The Goths in History and Pre--Gothic Gothic (Robin Sowerby). 3. European Gothic (Neil Cornwell). PART TWO. THE 'ORIGINAL' GOTHIC. 4. Ann Radcliffe and Matthew Lewis (Robert Miles). 5. Mary Shelley, Arthur of Frankenstein (Nora Crook). 6. Walter Scott, James Hogg and Scottish Gothic (Ian D…
Postcolonial imaginings
This book provides new perspectives on a wide range of writers, and at the same time provides a radically new development of many of the most pertinent issues in the field of postcolonial writing and theory. It constitutes a new engagement between the 'postcolonial' and a conception of the literary which is richly innovative in its deployment of psychoanalytic, deconstructive and other approaches to the text." "The book begins with some brief bac…
Spectral Readings
Gothic Pathologies
Swinburne, the cross, and the proliferation of abjection
Walking, Literature, and English Culture
Walking, Literature, and English Culture is a cultural history of walking in nineteenth-century England, assessing its importance in literature and in culture at large. Engaging with current debates about the relationship between industrialization and cultural production, and between technology and the picturesque, Anne Wallace examines the forces that transformed walking from an unwelcome fact of life to a celebrated activity for mind and body. …
Theory, Writing, Experience
I HAVE BEEN ASKED to write this piece partly because of my connection with the Development of University English Teaching Project (DUET). It therefore seems appropriate to open with a few remarks about DUET and why it might provide a ground for a discourse about literary theory. project was initiated in 1979 to study the subject matter, teaching methods, and practical applications of English studies in higher education. At an early stage it seeme…
Blake, Trauma and the Female
T HE PURPOSE of this paper is twofold. First, there is an elucidation of a specific problem in the writings of Blake: namely, his anguished treatment of the Female Will, which cannot be separated from the anguish produced in the radical reading of Blake by what is taken to be a signal lapse from political vision.1 Second, there is some attention to a particular group of Blake texts, culminating in a reading of certain features of Visions of the D…
The Literature of Terror
Walking, Literature, and English Culture
Walking, Literature, and English Culture is a cultural history of walking in nineteenth-century England, assessing its importance in literature and in culture at large. Engaging with current debates about the relationship between industrialization and cultural production, and between technology and the picturesque, Anne Wallace examines the forces that transformed walking from an unwelcome fact of life to a celebrated activity for mind and body. …
The Literature of Terror
Fictional Representation of the Law in the Eighteenth Century
EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FICTION iS obsessed with the law: with its operations, with its justifications, with its limits. Indeed, this is one of the most important of the set of changes heralded by Defoe: whereas the universe of the seventeenth-century romance was bounded and controlled by cosmic justice, reflected in already given quasi-mythic narrative structure, the universes of Defoe, Fielding, Radcliffe, Godwin are limited by various manifestation…
Theory, Writing, Experience
I HAVE BEEN ASKED to write this piece partly because of my connection with the Development of University English Teaching Project (DUET). It therefore seems appropriate to open with a few remarks about DUET and why it might provide a ground for a discourse about literary theory. project was initiated in 1979 to study the subject matter, teaching methods, and practical applications of English studies in higher education. At an early stage it seeme…
Blake, Trauma and the Female
T HE PURPOSE of this paper is twofold. First, there is an elucidation of a specific problem in the writings of Blake: namely, his anguished treatment of the Female Will, which cannot be separated from the anguish produced in the radical reading of Blake by what is taken to be a signal lapse from political vision.1 Second, there is some attention to a particular group of Blake texts, culminating in a reading of certain features of Visions of the D…
Walking, Literature, and English Culture
Walking, Literature, and English Culture is a cultural history of walking in nineteenth-century England, assessing its importance in literature and in culture at large. Engaging with current debates about the relationship between industrialization and cultural production, and between technology and the picturesque, Anne Wallace examines the forces that transformed walking from an unwelcome fact of life to a celebrated activity for mind and body. …
Swinburne, the cross, and the proliferation of abjection
Gothic Pathologies
Spectral Readings
Postcolonial imaginings
This book provides new perspectives on a wide range of writers, and at the same time provides a radically new development of many of the most pertinent issues in the field of postcolonial writing and theory. It constitutes a new engagement between the 'postcolonial' and a conception of the literary which is richly innovative in its deployment of psychoanalytic, deconstructive and other approaches to the text." "The book begins with some brief bac…
E‐textuality
A Companion to the Gothic
Introduction: The Ghost of a History. Notes on Contributors. PART ONE. GOTHIC BACKGROUNDS. 1. In Gothic Darkly: Heterotopia, History, Culture (Fred Botting). 2. The Goths in History and Pre--Gothic Gothic (Robin Sowerby). 3. European Gothic (Neil Cornwell). PART TWO. THE 'ORIGINAL' GOTHIC. 4. Ann Radcliffe and Matthew Lewis (Robert Miles). 5. Mary Shelley, Arthur of Frankenstein (Nora Crook). 6. Walter Scott, James Hogg and Scottish Gothic (Ian D…
The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction
Gothic as a form of fiction-making has played a major role in Western culture since the late eighteenth century. In this volume, fourteen world-class experts on the Gothic provide thorough and revealing accounts of this haunting-to-horrifying type of fiction from the 1760s (the decade of The Castle of Otranto, the first so-called 'Gothic story') to the end of the twentieth century (an era haunted by filmed and computerized Gothic simulations). Al…
Terrorism and the Uncanny, or, The Caves of Tora Bora
To address the notions of terrorism and the uncanny requires a thinking in terms of the unfamiliar, or more specifically of that which brings the unfamiliar into the heartland (or, as we might now refer to it in the era of ‘homeland security’, the homeland) of the family. We might be familiar with the headline ‘Terrorists are also family men’; perhaps less so with the equally thinkable proposal, ‘Family men are also terrorists’ — or, indeed, and …
Gothic Terms, Themes, Concepts and Contexts
Just as THE UNCANNY offers a connection to the structure of the unconscious, the abject offers a sensation of horror that connects us viscerally to the experience of repression and the process of subject formation. For Julia Kristeva, in Powers of Horror, abjection disturbs ‘identity, system, order’ and is characterised by ‘the in-between, the ambiguous, the composite’.
Writers of Gothic
Ainsworth made his first venture into sensational fiction with ‘The Test of Affection’ (European Magazine, 1822), a tale that relies heavily on artificial ‘SUPERNATURAL’ devices in the ANN RADCLIFFE mode for its effect. It was followed by ‘The Spectre Bride’ (Arliss’s Pocket Magazine, 1822) and his early Gothic tales were collected in his first book, the anonymous December Tales (1823). All of this youthful work — which displays more enthusiasm t…
Pity
Research Article| March 01 2010 Pity: Reflections on Algernon Blackwood's Gothic David Punter David Punter University of Bristol [email protected] David Punter is professor of English at the University of Bristol, UK. He has previously held posts at the University of East Anglia, UK; Fudan University, Shanghai, China; the Chinese University of Hong Kong; and the University of Stirling, UK. He is the author of numerous books on Gothic and…
John Buchan and Wilson Harris
A New Companion to the Gothic
The Encyclopedia of the Gothic
The Literature of Terror
The Literature of Terror: the Modern Gothic is the second volume in David Punter's impressive survey of gothic writing covering over two centuries. This long awaited second edition has been expanded to take into account the latest critical research, and is now published in two volumes. Volume One covers the period from 1765 to the Edwardian age while Volume Two discusses modern gothic, starting with the 'decadent' gothic writing of Oscar Wilde an…
The Cambridge Companion to ‘Frankenstein
The Cambridge Companion to Frankenstein consists of sixteen original essays on Mary Shelley's novel by leading scholars, providing an invaluable introduction to Frankenstein and its various critical contexts. Theoretically informed but accessibly written, this volume relates Frankenstein to various social, literary, scientific and historical contexts, and outlines how critical theories such as ecocriticism, posthumanism, and queer theory generate…
Postcolonial Imaginings
This deeply engaging, historically and culturally informed book provides new perspectives on a wide range of writers, and at the same time provides a radically new development of many of the most pertinent issues in the field of postcolonial writing and theory. It constitutes a major new engagement between the 'postcolonial' and a conception of the literary which is richly innovative in its deployment of psychoanalytic, deconstructive and other a…
Postcolonial Imaginings
The Ghosts of Lockdown
Masques of the Red Death
The title of this short essay comes, of course, from Poe’s very short story, ‘The Masque of the Red Death’, which has once again become a tale for our times. It tells, as is well-known, of a plague or pestilence – none had previously been, so Poe tells us, ‘so fatal, or so hideous’. In the face of this disaster, the no doubt aptly named Prince Prospero retreats to his magnificent palace with a ‘small’ party of a thousand guests and they proceed t…
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