Gothic Literature Books

New and Published Books

1. The Demonic

   Literature and Experience

   By Ewan Fernie

   Are we either good or bad, and do we really know the difference? Why do we want what we cannot have, and even to be what we’re not? Can we desire others without wanting to possess them? Can we open to others and not risk possession ourselves? And where, in these cases, do we draw the line? Ewan...

   Published November 7th 2012 by Routledge
2. The Gothic in Contemporary Literature and Popular Culture

   Pop Goth

   Edited by Justin Edwards, Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet

   Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

   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...

   Published May 8th 2012 by Routledge
3. Literary Ghosts from the Victorians to Modernism

   The Haunting Interval

   By Luke Thurston

   Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature

   This book resituates the ghost story as a matter of literary hospitality and as part of a vital prehistory of modernism, seeing it not as a quaint neo-gothic ornament, but as a powerful literary response to the technological and psychological disturbances that marked the end of the Victorian era....

   Published May 8th 2012 by Routledge
4. Haunting and Displacement in African American Literature and Culture

   By Marisa Parham

   Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

   Looking at texts including Jean Toomer’s Cane, Toni Morrison’s Beloved, James Baldwin’s Another Country, and Beat poetry by Bob Kaufmann, in this original study, Parham describes the phenomena of haunting, displacement, and ghostliness as endemic to modern African American literature and...

   Published January 5th 2011 by Routledge
5. The Gothic in Children's Literature

   Haunting the Borders

   Edited by Anna Jackson, Roderick McGillis, Karen Coats

   Series: Children's Literature and Culture

   From creepy picture books to Harry Potter, Lemony Snicket, the Spiderwick Chronicles, and countless vampire series for young adult readers, fear has become a dominant mode of entertainment for young readers. The last two decades have seen an enormous growth in the critical study of two very...

   Published October 18th 2009 by Routledge
6. Gothic Shakespeares

   Edited by John Drakakis, Dale Townshend

   Series: Accents on Shakespeare

   Readings of Shakespeare were both influenced by and influential in the rise of Gothic forms in literature and culture from the late eighteenth century onwards. Shakespeare’s plays are full of ghosts, suspense, fear-inducing moments and cultural anxieties which many writers in the Gothic mode have...

   Published November 30th 2008 by Routledge
7. Gothic Romanced

   Consumption, Gender and Technology in Contemporary Fictions

   By Fred Botting

   The dark, destructive and monstrous elements of gothic fiction have traditionally been seen in opposition to the rose-tinted idealism of Romanticism. In this ground-breaking study, Fred Botting re-evaluates the relationship between the two genres in order to plot the shifting alignments of popular...

   Published June 22nd 2008 by Routledge
8. The Routledge Companion to Gothic

   Edited by Catherine Spooner, Emma McEvoy

   Series: Routledge Companions

   In a wide ranging series of introductory essays written by some of the leading figures in the field, this essential guide explores the world of Gothic in all its myriad forms throughout the mid-eighteenth Century to the internet age. The Routledge Companion to Gothic includes discussion on: the...

   Published October 18th 2007 by Routledge
9. Gothic

   Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies

   Edited by Fred Botting, Dale Townshead

   Series: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies

   In the last two decades criticism of Gothic fiction has been transformed from a scholarly backwater, interesting itself in literary curiosities, to a wave of wide-ranging critical investigations collectively convinced of the significance, scope and centrality of the genre.Embracing recent...

   Published April 21st 2004 by Routledge
10. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

    A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook

    Edited by Timothy Morton

    Series: Routledge Guides to Literature

    Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is one of the most widely studied works of English literature, and Frankenstein's creature is a key figure in the popular imagination. This sourcebook examines Mary Shelley's novel within its literary and cultural contexts, bringing together material on: *the contexts...

    Published July 17th 2002 by Routledge