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 original essays have been revised to reflect current debates Offers comprehensive coverage of criticism of the Gothic and of the various theoretical approaches it has inspired and spawned Features important and original essays by leading scholars in the field The editor is widely recognized as the founder of modern criticism of the Gothic INDICE: Notes on Contributors x .Acknowledgments xvii.Introduction: The Ghost of a History 1David Punter.Part I. Gothic Backgrounds 11.1 In Gothic Darkly: Heterotopia, History, Culture 13Fred Botting.2 The Goths in History and Pre–Gothic Gothic 25Robin Sowerby.3 Gothic Shakespeare 38Dale Townshend.4 European Gothic 64Neil Cornwell.5 The Gothic Ballad 77Douglass H. Thomson.Part II. The Original Gothic 91.6 Ann Radcliffe and Matthew Lewis 93Robert Miles.7 Mary Shelley, Author of Frankenstein 110Nora Crook.8 Walter Scott, James Hogg, and Scottish Gothic 123Ian Duncan.9 Irish Gothic: C. R. Maturin and J. S. LeFanu 135Victor Sage.10 The Political Culture of Gothic Drama 148David Worrall.Part III. Nineteenth– and Twentieth–CenturyTransformations 161.11 Nineteenth–Century American Gothic 163Allan Lloyd Smith.12 The Ghost Story 176Julia Briggs.13 Gothic in the 1890s 186Glennis Byron.14 Fictional Vampires in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries197William Hughes.15 Horror Fiction: In Search of a Definition 211Clive Bloom.16 Love Bites: Contemporary Women s Vampire Fictions224Gina Wisker.17 Gothic Film 239Heidi Kaye.18 Shape and Shadow: On Poetry and the Uncanny 252David Punter.Part IV. Gothic Theory and Genre 265.19 Gothic Criticism 267Chris Baldick and Robert Mighall.20 The Gothic Sublime 288Vijay Mishra.21 Psychoanalysis and the Gothic 307Michelle A. Massé.22 Comic Gothic 321Avril Horner and Sue Zlosnik.23 Gothic and the Graphic Novel 335Julia Round.24 Goth Culture 350Catherine Spooner.Part V. The Globalization of Gothic 367.25 Global Gothic 369Glennis Byron.26 Australian Gothic 379Ken Gelder.27 New Zealand Gothic 393Ian Conrich.28 Canadian Gothic 409Cynthia Sugars.29 Asian Gothic 428Katarzyna Ancuta.30 Japanese Gothic 442Charles Shirô Inouye.Part VI. The Continuing Debate 455.31 Can You Forgive Her? The Gothic Heroine and Her Critics457Kate Ferguson Ellis.32 Picture This: Stephen King s Queer Gothic 469Steven Bruhm.33 Seeing Things: Gothic and the Madness of Interpretation481Scott Brewster.34 The Gothic Ghost of the Counterfeit and the Progress ofAbjection 496Jerrold E. Hogle.35 The Magical Realism of the Contemporary Gothic 510Lucie Armitt.36 Welcome the Coming, Speed the Parting Guest: Hospitality andthe Gothic 523Joanne Watkiss.Index 535
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- Editorial: Wiley–Blackwell
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 568
- Fecha Publicación: 01/05/2015
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