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The Gothic World

Edited by Glennis Byron, Dale Townshend

To Be Published September 9th 2013 by Routledge – 512 pages

Series: Routledge Worlds

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Description

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’.

Contents

General Introduction, Glennis Byron and Dale Townshend Part 1: Gothic Histories 1.1 The Politics of Gothic Historiography, 1670-1800 1.2 Gothic Antiquarianism in the Eighteenth Century 1.3 Gothic and the New American Republic, 1770-1800 1.4 Gothic and the Celtic Fringe, 1750-1850 1.5 British Gothic Nationhood, 1760-1830 1.6 Gothic Colonies, 1850-1920 1.7 History, Trauma and the Gothic in contemporary Western culture Part 2: Gothic Spaces 2.1 Gothic and the architectural Imagination, 1740-1840 2.2 Gothic Geography, 1760-1830 2.3 Gothic and the Victorian Home 2.4 American Haunted Houses, 1800-1900 2.5 Gothic Cities and Suburbs, 1880-Present Part 3: Gothic Readers and Writers 3.1 Gothic and the History of Reading, 1764-1830 3.2 Gothic and the Publishing World, 1790-1830 3.3 Gothic Adaptation, 1765-1830 3.4 Gothic Romance, 1765-1830 3.5 Gothic poetry, 1700-1900 3.6 Gothic Translation: France, 1760-1830 3.7 Gothic Translation: Germany, 1760-1830 3.8 Gothic sensations, 1850-1880 3.9 Figuring the Author in Modern Gothic Writing 3.10 Gothic and the Child-reader I: 1764-1840 3.11 Gothic and the Child-reader II: 1840-Present 3.12 Young Adults and the Contemporary Gothic 3.13 Gothic and Question of Theory, 1900-Present Part 4: Gothic Spectacle 4.1 Gothic and Eighteenth-century Painting 4.2 Gothic Illustration, 1765-1900 4.3 Gothic Theatre, 1765-present 4.4 Monsters and Spirits, 1840-1900 4.5 Gothic Horror From Nosferatu to Psycho 4.6 Gothic horror film, 1960-Present 4.7 South-Asian Horror 4.8 Gothic in Modern and Contemporary Art Part 5: Contemporary Impulses 5.1 Acoustic Gothic 5.2 Gothic Lifestyles 5.3 Gothic Gaming 5.4 Rewriting the Canon in Contemporary Gothic 5.5 Gothic Tourism 5.6 Gothic on the Small Screen 5.7 Cybergothic 5.8 Post-Millennial Monsters

Author Bio

Glennis Byron is Professor of English at the University of Stirling, Scotland. With Dale Townshend, she co-runs the MLitt in The Gothic Imagination and the Gothic Imagination website. She was the principal investigator for the AHRC funded Global Gothic network. Globalgothic is forthcoming from Manchester University Press in 2012.

Dale Townshend is 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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Description: Edited by Glennis Byron, Dale Townshend. 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...
Categories: Literature, Gothic Literature, Literature & Culture