An interdisciplinary collection providing new perspective on the interface between the gothic and death, with fresh readings of established, overlooked and recent Gothic works across a variety of cultural and literary forms.
An interdisciplinary collection providing new perspective on the interface between the gothic and death, with fresh readings of established, overlooked and recent Gothic works across a variety of cultural and literary forms.
Carol Margaret Davison is Professor and Head of Department of the English Language, Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Windsor
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Introduction - The corpse in the closet: the Gothic, death, and modernity - Carol Margaret Davison Part I: Gothic graveyards and afterlives 1. Past, present, and future death in the graveyard - Serena Trowbridge 2. On the very Verge of legitimate Invention': Charles Bonnet and Blake's illustrations to The Grave (1808)' - Sibylle Erle 3. Entranced by death: Horace Smith's Mesmerism - Bruce Wyse Part II: Gothic revolutions and undead histories 4. 'This dreadful machine': the spectacle of death and the aesthetics of crowd control - Emma Galbally and Conrad Brunström 5. Undying histories: Washington Irving's Gothic afterlives - Yael Maurer 6. Deadly interrogations: cycles of death and transcendence in Byron's Gothic - Adam White Part III: Gothic apocalypses: dead selves/dead civilizations 7. The annihilation of self and species: The ecoGothic sensibilities of Mary Shelley and Nathaniel Hawthorne - Jennifer Schell 8. Death cults in Gothic 'Lost World' fiction - John Cameron Hartley 9. Dead again: zombies and the spectre of cultural decline - Matthew Pangborn Part IV: Global Gothic dead 10. A double dose of death in Iginio Ugo Tarchetti's 'I fatali' - Christina Petraglia 11. Through the opaque veil: the Gothic and death in Russian realism - Katherine Bowers 12. Afterdeath and the Bollywood Gothic noir - Vijay Mishra Part V: Twenty-first century gothic and death 13. Dead and ghostly children in contemporary literature for young people - Michelle J. Smith 14. Modernity's fatal addictions: technological necromancy and E. Elias Merhige's Shadow of the Vampire - Carol Margaret Davison 15. 'I'm not in that thing you know ... I'm remote. I'm in the cloud': networked spectrality in Charlie Brooker's 'Be Right Back' - Neal Kirk Index
Introduction - The corpse in the closet: the Gothic, death, and modernity - Carol Margaret Davison Part I: Gothic graveyards and afterlives 1. Past, present, and future death in the graveyard - Serena Trowbridge 2. On the very Verge of legitimate Invention': Charles Bonnet and Blake's illustrations to The Grave (1808)' - Sibylle Erle 3. Entranced by death: Horace Smith's Mesmerism - Bruce Wyse Part II: Gothic revolutions and undead histories 4. 'This dreadful machine': the spectacle of death and the aesthetics of crowd control - Emma Galbally and Conrad Brunström 5. Undying histories: Washington Irving's Gothic afterlives - Yael Maurer 6. Deadly interrogations: cycles of death and transcendence in Byron's Gothic - Adam White Part III: Gothic apocalypses: dead selves/dead civilizations 7. The annihilation of self and species: The ecoGothic sensibilities of Mary Shelley and Nathaniel Hawthorne - Jennifer Schell 8. Death cults in Gothic 'Lost World' fiction - John Cameron Hartley 9. Dead again: zombies and the spectre of cultural decline - Matthew Pangborn Part IV: Global Gothic dead 10. A double dose of death in Iginio Ugo Tarchetti's 'I fatali' - Christina Petraglia 11. Through the opaque veil: the Gothic and death in Russian realism - Katherine Bowers 12. Afterdeath and the Bollywood Gothic noir - Vijay Mishra Part V: Twenty-first century gothic and death 13. Dead and ghostly children in contemporary literature for young people - Michelle J. Smith 14. Modernity's fatal addictions: technological necromancy and E. Elias Merhige's Shadow of the Vampire - Carol Margaret Davison 15. 'I'm not in that thing you know ... I'm remote. I'm in the cloud': networked spectrality in Charlie Brooker's 'Be Right Back' - Neal Kirk Index
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