1st Edition
The Gothic in Contemporary Literature and Popular Culture Pop Goth
This interdisciplinary collection brings together world leaders in Gothic Studies, offering dynamic new readings on popular Gothic cultural productions from the last decade. Topics covered include, but are not limited to: contemporary High Street Goth/ic fashion, Gothic performance and art festivals, Gothic popular fiction from Twilight to Shadow of the Wind, Goth/ic popular music, Goth/ic on TV and film, new trends like Steampunk, well-known icons Batman and Lady Gaga, and theorizations of popular Gothic monsters (from zombies and vampires to werewolves and ghosts) in an age of terror/ism.
Introduction: PopGoth Now, Justin D Edwards and Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet 1. Love Your Zombie: Horror, Ethics and (post)Humanity, Fred Botting 2. Vampires, Mad Scientists, and the Unquiet Dead: TV Ubiquity and the Gothic’s Own Demise, Linnie Blake 3. Being Human?: Twenty-First Century Monsters, Monica Germanà 4. The Monster, Within: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Anatomy of Redemption, Stephanie Marriott 5. Vampirism, Monstrosity, and Negotiations of Race in Francis Lawrence’s I Am Legend, Dorothea Schuller 6. Batman as PopGoth Icon, Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet 7. Gothic, Grabbit, and Run: Carlos Ruiz Zafón and the Gothic Marketplace, Glennis Byron 8. Adolescence and (Re)capitulation in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Series, Rachael McLennan 9. The Monstrous House of Gaga, Karen Macfarlane 10. Spectral Liturgy: Of Goth Parties and Gothic Music, Isabella van Elferen 11. Under their Own Steam: Autopoesis and Steampunk Culture, Gail Ashurst and Anna Powell 12. "‘Boo!’ to taboo": Burlesque, Circus, Walkabouts, and Museums of Curiousities, Emma McEnvoy 13. ‘Forget Nu Rave, We’re Into Nu Grave!’: Styling Gothic in the 21st Century, Catherine Spooner Contributors Index
Biography
Justin D Edwards is Professor of English at the University of Surrey.
Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet is Professor of American Literature at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland.
