A new companion to the Gothic

A new companion to the Gothic /

The thoroughly expanded and updated New Companion to the Gothic, provides a series of stimulating insights into Gothic writing, its history and genealogy. The addition of 12 new essays and a section on 'Global Gothic' reflects the direction Gothic criticism has taken over the last decade....

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Other Authors: Punter, David (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012
Series:Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 79.
Subjects:
Horror tales, English > History and criticism.
Gothic revival (Literature) > English-speaking countries.
Psychoanalysis and literature > English-speaking countries.
Horror tales, American > History and criticism.
Psychological fiction > History and criticism.
Ghost stories > History and criticism.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The Ghost of a History / David Punter
  • Part I: Gothic Backgrounds
  • 1: In Gothic Darkly: Heterotopia, History, Culture / Fred Botting
  • 2: The Goths in History and Pre-Gothic Gothic / Robin Sowerby
  • 3: Gothic Shakespeare / Dale Townshend
  • 4: European Gothic / Neil Cornwell
  • 5: The Gothic Ballad / Douglass H. Thomson
  • Part II: The Original Gothic
  • 6: Ann Radcliffe and Matthew Lewis / Robert Miles
  • 7: Mary Shelley, Author of Frankenstein / Nora Crook
  • 8: Walter Scott, James Hogg, and Scottish Gothic / Ian Duncan
  • 9: Irish Gothic: C. R. Maturin and J. S. LeFanu / Victor Sage
  • 10: The Political Culture of Gothic Drama / David Worrall
  • Part III: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Transformations
  • 11: Nineteenth-Century American Gothic / Allan Lloyd Smith
  • 12: The Ghost Story / Julia Briggs
  • 13: Gothic in the 1890s / Glennis Byron
  • 14: Fictional Vampires in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries / William Hughes
  • 15: Horror Fiction: In Search of a Definition / Clive Bloom
  • 16: Love Bites: Contemporary Women's Vampire Fictions / Gina Wisker
  • 17: Gothic Film / Heidi Kaye
  • 18: Shape and Shadow: On Poetry and the Uncanny / David Punter
  • Part IV: Gothic Theory and Genre
  • 9: Gothic Criticism / Chris Baldick and Robert Mighall
  • 20: The Gothic Sublime / Vijay Mishra
  • 21: Psychoanalysis and the Gothic / Michelle A. Massé
  • 22: Comic Gothic / Avril Horner and Sue Zlosnik
  • 23: Gothic and the Graphic Novel / Julia Round
  • 24: Goth Culture / Catherine Spooner
  • Part V: The Globalization of Gothic
  • 25: Global Gothic / Glennis Byron
  • 26: Australian Gothic / Ken Gelder
  • 27: New Zealand Gothic / Ian Conrich
  • 28: Canadian Gothic / Cynthia Sugars
  • 29: Asian Gothic / Katarzyna Ancuta
  • 30: Japanese Gothic / Charles Shirō Inouye
  • Part VI: The Continuing Debate
  • 31: Can You Forgive Her? The Gothic Heroine and Her Critics / Kate Ferguson Ellis
  • 32: Picture This: Stephen King's Queer Gothic / Steven Bruhm
  • 33: Seeing Things: Gothic and the Madness of Interpretation / Scott Brewster
  • 34: The Gothic Ghost of the Counterfeit and the Progress of Abjection / Jerrold E. Hogle
  • 35: The Magical Realism of the Contemporary Gothic / Lucie Armitt
  • 36: Welcome the Coming, Speed the Parting Guest: Hospitality and the Gothic / Joanne Watkiss

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