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Book SynopsisComprising twenty three essays by leading international scholars, this book is a key reference work for anyone studying twentieth and twenty-first-century Gothic, from A-level students and teachers to senior academics. Resolutely interdisciplinary in its focus, it offers unparalleled range and coverage as well as cutting-edge critical approaches.
Trade Review'... the sheer scale and interdisciplinary nature of [this] project multiplies the possible applications of the Gothic mode.' Joellen Mary Delucia, Eighteenth-Century Studies
Table of ContentsIntroduction: A history of gothic studies in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries Catherine Spooner; 1. Gothic and silent cinema Stacey Abbott and Simon Brown; 2. Gothic, the great war and the rise of modernism, 1910‒1936 Matt Foley; 3. Gothic and the American south, 1919‒1962 Arthur Redding; 4. Hollywood gothic, 1930–1960 Mark Jancovich; 5. Gothic and war, 1930–91 Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet; 6. Gothic and the postcolonial moment Tabish Khair; 7. Gothic and the heritage movement in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries Emma McEvoy; 8. Gothic enchantment: The magical strain in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Anglo-American gothic David Punter; 9. Psychoanalysis and the American popular gothic, 1954–1980 Bernice M. Murphy; 10. Gothic and the counterculture, 1958‒Present Catherine Spooner; 11. Gothic television Derek Johnston; 12. Gothic and the rise of feminism Lucie Armitt; 13. Gothic, AIDS and sexuality, 1981–present Ardel Haefele-Thomas; 14. The gothic in the age of neo-liberalism, 1990‒present Linnie Blake; 15. The gothic and remix culture Megen de Bruin-Molé; 16. Postdigital gothic Marc Olivier; 17. Gothic multiculturalism Sarah Ilott; 18. Gothic, neo-imperialism and the war on terror Johan Höglund; 19. Global gothic 1: Islamic gothic Tuğçe Bıçakçı Syed; 20. Global gothic 2: East Asian gothic Daniel Martin; 21. Global gothic 3: Gothic in modern Scandinavia Yvonne Leffler; 22. The 'Bad Oikos': Gothic in an age of environmental crisis Sara L. Crosby; 23. Gothic and the apocalyptic imagination Simon Marsden.
