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.Many of the originalessays have been revised to reflect current debatesOffers comprehensive coverage of criticism of the Gothic and of the various theoretical approaches it has inspired and spawnedFeatures important and original essays by leading scholars in the fieldThe editor is widely recognized as the founder of modern criticism of the Gothic INDICE: Notes on Contributors xAcknowledgments xviiIntroduction: The Ghostof a History 1David PunterPart I. Gothic Backgrounds 111 In Gothic Darkly: Heterotopia, History, Culture 13Fred Botting2 The Goths in History and Pre-Gothic Gothic 25Robin Sowerby3 Gothic Shakespeare 38Dale Townshend4 European Gothic64Neil Cornwell5 The Gothic Ballad 77Douglass H. ThomsonPart II. The OriginalGothic 916 Ann Radcliffe and Matthew Lewis 93Robert Miles7 Mary Shelley, Author of Frankenstein 110Nora Crook8 Walter Scott, James Hogg, and Scottish Gothic 123Ian Duncan9 Irish Gothic: C. R. Maturin and J. S. LeFanu 135Victor Sage10The Political Culture of Gothic Drama 148David WorrallPart III. Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Transformations 16111 Nineteenth-Century American Gothic 163Allan Lloyd Smith12 The Ghost Story 176Julia Briggs13 Gothic in the 1890s 186Glennis Byron14 Fictional Vampires in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries197William Hughes15 Horror Fiction: In Search of a Definition 211Clive Bloom16 Love Bites: Contemporary Women€™s Vampire Fictions 224Gina Wisker17 Gothic Film 239Heidi Kaye18 Shape and Shadow: On Poetry and the Uncanny 252David PunterPart IV. Gothic Theory and Genre 26519 Gothic Criticism 267Chris Baldick and Robert Mighall20 The Gothic Sublime 288Vijay Mishra21 Psychoanalysis and the Gothic 307Michelle A. Mass 22 Comic Gothic 321Avril Horner and Sue Zlosnik23 Gothic and the Graphic Novel 335Julia Round24 Goth Culture 350Catherine SpoonerPart V. The Globalization of Gothic 36725 Global Gothic 369Glennis Byron26 Australian Gothic 379Ken Gelder27 New Zealand Gothic 393Ian Conrich28 Canadian Gothic 409Cynthia Sugars29 Asian Gothic 428Katarzyna Ancuta30 Japanese Gothic 442Charles Shirō InouyePart VI. The Continuing Debate 45531 Can You Forgive Her?The Gothic Heroine and Her Critics 457Kate Ferguson Ellis32 Picture This: Stephen King€™s Queer Gothic 469Steven Bruhm33 Seeing Things: Gothic and the Madness of Interpretation 481Scott Brewster34 The Gothic Ghost of the Counterfeit and the Progress of Abjection 496Jerrold E. Hogle35 The Magical Realism of theContemporary Gothic 510Lucie Armitt36 Welcome the Coming, Speed the Parting Guest: Hospitality and the Gothic 523Joanne WatkissIndex 535

• ISBN: 978-1-4443-5495-9
• Editorial: Wiley-Blackwell
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 568
• Fecha Publicación: 29/03/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés