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The gothic world / edited by Glennis Byron and Dale Townshend.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: The Routledge worldsPublisher: London : Routledge, 2013Description: p. cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780415637442 (hbk.)
  • 0415637449 (hbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.1 GOT
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Standard Loan LSAD Library Main Collection 306.1 GOT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 39002100467456

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The Gothic World offers an overview of this popular field whilst also extending critical debate in exciting new directions such as film, politics, fashion, architecture, fine art and cyberculture. Structured around the principles of time, space and practice, and including a detailed general introduction, the five sections look at:

Gothic Histories Gothic Spaces Gothic Readers and Writers Gothic Spectacle Contemporary Impulses.

The Gothic World seeks to account for the Gothic as a multi-faceted, multi-dimensional force, as a style, an aesthetic experience and a mode of cultural expression that traverses genres, forms, media, disciplines and national boundaries and creates, indeed, its own 'World'.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • List of figures (p. xii)
  • Notes on contributors (p. xv)
  • Acknowledgements (p. xxii)
  • Introduction (p. xxiv)
  • Part I Gothic Histories (p. 1)
  • 1 The politics of Gothic historiography, 1660-1800 (p. 3)
  • 2 Gothic antiquarianism in the eighteenth century (p. 15)
  • 3 Gothic and the New American Republic, 1770-1800 (p. 27)
  • 4 Gothic and the Celtic fringe, 1750-1850 (p. 38)
  • 5 British Gothic nationhood, 1760-1830 (p. 51)
  • 6 Gothic colonies, 1850-1920 (p. 62)
  • 7 History, trauma and the Gothic in contemporary western fictions (p. 72)
  • Part II Gothic Spaces (p. 83)
  • 8 Gothic and the architectural imagination, 1740-1840 (p. 85)
  • 9 Gothic geography, 1760-1830 (p. 98)
  • 10 Gothic and the Victorian home (p. 110)
  • 11 American Gothic and the environment, 1800-present (p. 121)
  • 12 Gothic cities and suburbs, 1880-present (p. 132)
  • 13 Gothic in cyberspace (p. 143)
  • Part III Gothic Readers and Writers (p. 157)
  • 14 Gothic and the publishing world, 1780-1820 (p. 159)
  • 15 Gothic and the history of reading, 1764-1830 (p. 172)
  • 16 Gothic adaptation, 1764-1830 (p. 185)
  • 17 Gothic romance, 1760-1830 (p. 199)
  • 18 Gothic poetry, 1700-1900 (p. 210)
  • 19 Gothic translation: France, 1760-1830 (p. 221)
  • 20 Gothic translation: Germany, 1760-1830 (p. 231)
  • 21 Gothic and the child reader, 1764-18 50 (p. 243)
  • 22 Gothic and the child reader, 1850-present (p. 254)
  • 23 Gothic sensations, 1850-1880 (p. 264)
  • 24 Young adults and the contemporary Gothic (p. 274)
  • 25 The earliest parodies of Gothic literature (p. 284)
  • 26 Figuring the author in modern Gothic writing (p. 297)
  • 27 Gothic and the question of theory, 1900-present (p. 308)
  • Part IV Gothic Spectacle (p. 321)
  • 28 Gothic and eighteenth-century visual art (p. 323)
  • 29 Gothic visuality in the nineteenth century (p. 341)
  • 30 Gothic theater, 1765-present (p. 354)
  • 31 Ghosts, monsters and spirits, 1840-1900 (p. 366)
  • 32 Gothic horror film from The Haunted Castle. (1896) to Psycho (1960) (p. 376)
  • 33 Gothic horror film, 1960-present (p. 388)
  • 34 Southeast Asian Gothic cinema (p. 399)
  • 35 Defining a Gothic aesthetic in modern and contemporary visual art (p. 412)
  • Part V Contemporary Impulses (p. 427)
  • 36 Sonic Gothic (p. 429)
  • 37 Gothic lifestyle (p. 441)
  • 38 Gothic and survival horror videogames (p. 454)
  • 39 Rewriting the canon in contemporary Gothic (p. 465)
  • 40 Gothic tourism (p. 476)
  • 41 Gothic on the small screen (p. 487)
  • 42 Post-millennial monsters: monstrosity-no-more (p. 498)
  • Index (p. 510)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Glennis Byron is Professor of English at the University of Stirling, Scotland. With Dale Townshend, she co-runs the MLitt in The Gothic Imagination. She was the principal investigator for the AHRC-funded Global Gothic network.
Dale Townshend is Senior Lecturer in Gothic and Romantic Literature at the University of Stirling, Scotland, where he co-runs, with Glennis Byron, the MLitt in The Gothic Imagination.

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