New Companion to The Gothic.
Title:
New Companion to The Gothic.
Author:
Punter, David.
ISBN:
9781444354928
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (569 pages)
Series:
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture ; v.178
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
Contents:
A NEW COMPANION TO THE GOTHIC -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Ghost of a History -- Part I: Gothic Backgrounds -- 1: In Gothic Darkly: Heterotopia, History, Culture -- 2: The Goths in History and Pre-Gothic Gothic -- 3: Gothic Shakespeare -- 4: European Gothic -- 5: The Gothic Ballad -- Part II: The Original Gothic -- 6: Ann Radcliffe and Matthew Lewis -- 7: Mary Shelley, Author of -- 8: Walter Scott, James Hogg, and Scottish Gothic -- 9: Irish Gothic: C. R. Maturin and J. S. LeFanu -- 10: The Political Culture of Gothic Drama -- Part III: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Transformations -- 11: Nineteenth-Century American Gothic -- 12: The Ghost Story -- 13: Gothic in the 1890s -- 14: Fictional Vampires in the Nineteenth and Twentieth -- 15: Horror Fiction: In Search of a Definition -- 16: Love Bites: Contemporary Women's Vampire Fictions -- 17: Gothic Film -- 18: Shape and Shadow: On Poetry and the Uncanny -- Part IV: Gothic Theory and Genre -- 19: Gothic Criticism -- 20: The Gothic Sublime -- 21: Psychoanalysis and the Gothic -- 22: Comic Gothic -- 23: Gothic and the Graphic Novel -- 24: Goth Culture -- Part V: The Globalization of Gothic -- 25: Global Gothic -- 26: Australian Gothic -- 27: New Zealand Gothic -- 28: Canadian Gothic -- 29: Asian Gothic -- 30: Japanese Gothic -- Part VI: The Continuing Debate -- 31: Can You Forgive Her? The Gothic Heroine and Her Critics -- 32: Picture This: Stephen King's Queer Gothic -- 33: Seeing Things: Gothic and the Madness of Interpretation -- 34: The Gothic Ghost of the Counterfeit and the Progress of Abjection -- 35: The Magical Realism of the Contemporary Gothic -- 36: Welcome the Coming, Speed the Parting Guest: Hospitality and the Gothic -- Index.
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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