Twentieth-Century Gothic
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-9012-2 (ISBN)
During the latter half of the twentieth century the Gothic emerged as one of the liveliest and most significant areas of academic inquiry within literary, film, and popular culture studies. This volume covers the key concepts and developments associated with Twentieth-Century Gothic, tracing the development of the mode from the fin de siècle to 9/11. The eighteen chapters reflect the interdisciplinary and ever-evolving nature of the Gothic, which, during the century, migrated from literature and drama to the cinema and television. The volume has both a chronological and thematic focus and particular attention is paid to topics and themes related to race, identity, marginality and technology. Chapters on ecoGothic, Gothic Studies as a discipline, Medical Humanities, Queer Studies, African American Studies and Russian Gothic ensure that the collection is up-to-date and wide-ranging. In addition to the Introduction by the editors, suggested further readings at the end of each chapter are intended to facilitate further independent research by readers and researchers.
Sorcha Ní Fhlainn is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies and American Studies and founding member of the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University. She is the author of Postmodern Vampires: Film, Fiction, and Popular Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) which was awarded the Lord Ruthven Prize in 2020 and the editor of Clive Barker: Dark Imaginer (Manchester University Press, 2017) The Worlds of Back to the Future: Critical essays on the films (Macfarland, 2010) and Our Monstrous (S)kin: Blurring the Boundaries Between Monsters and Humanity (The Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2010). Bernice M. Murphy is an Associate Professor and Lecturer in Popular Literature in the School of English, Trinity College, Dublin. She has published extensively on topics related to American Gothic and horror fiction and film and was recently academic consultant to The Letters of Shirley Jackson (2021, edited by Laurence Jackson Hyman). Bernice was made a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin in 2017.
Introduction: ‘Going to Extremes: The Gothic in the Twentieth-Century’ – Bernice M. Murphy and Sorcha Ní Fhlainn
Part 1: Gothic Evolutions:
1. ‘The Edwardian Supernatural’ – Emma Liggins
2. ‘Weird Fiction in the Twentieth-Century Gothic’ – Kevin Corstorphine
3. ‘Gothic Modernism’ – Matt Foley
4. ‘Gothic Criticism in the Twentieth-Century: Who is This That is Coming? – Scott Brewster
Part 2: The Gothic and Technology/Transmedia Considerations
5. ‘The Birth of an Evil Thought: The Gothic in Silent-Era Cinema’ – Murray Leeder
6. ‘Grand-Guignol as Twentieth-Century Gothic Drama’ – Madelon Hoedt
7. ‘Mid-Century Gothic Cinema (1931-79): From Monster Business to Exploitation’ Horror – Xavier Aldana Reyes
8. "The Unheimlich State: Surveillance and the Digital Nation’ – Julia Wright
9. Gothic Horror Films at the Fin-de-Millennium: From Nightmare Videos to Filtered Realities (1980 – 2000) - Sorcha Ní Fhlainn
Part 3: Key Themes and Topics in Twentieth-Century Gothic:
10. ‘Twentieth-Century War Gothic’ – Agnieszka Slotysik Monnet
11. ‘Russian Twentieth-Century Gothic: The Irrepressible Undead’ – Muireann Maguire
12. ‘The Gothic Nineteen-Fifties’ – Steffen Hantke
13. ‘Masks of Sanity: The Rise of the Psychopath in Twentieth-Century Gothic’ - Bernice M. Murphy
14. ‘Troubling Legacies: African American Women’s Gothic from Zora Neale Hurston to Tananarive Due’ – Dara Downey
15. ‘Medical Humanities and the Gothic’ – Laura R. Kremmel
16. ‘Queer Gothic Literature and Culture’ – Laura Westengard
17. ‘Nightmares of the Normative’: African American Gothic and the Rejection of the American Ideal’ – Maisha Wester
18. ‘Big Bad Wolves and Angry Sharks: The Ecogothic and a Century of Environmental Change’– Christy Tidwell
About the ContributorsIndex
| Erscheinungsdatum | 11.06.2022 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Edinburgh Companions to the Gothic |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4744-9012-3 / 1474490123 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4744-9012-2 / 9781474490122 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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