The Cambridge History of the Gothic: Volume 3, Gothic in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries: Volume 3: Gothic in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

by Catherine Spooner (Editor), Dale Townshend (Editor)

Overview

The third volume of The Cambridge History of the Gothic is the first book to provide an in-depth history of Gothic literature, film, television and culture in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries (c. 1896-present). Identifying key historical shifts from the birth of film to the threat of apocalypse, leading international scholars offer comprehensive coverage of the ideas, events, movements and contexts that shaped the Gothic as it entered a dynamic period of diversification across all forms of media. Twenty-three chapters plus an extended introduction provide in-depth accounts of topics including Modernism, war, postcolonialism, psychoanalysis, counterculture, feminism, AIDS, neo-liberalism, globalisation, multiculturalism, the war on terror and environmental crisis. Provocative and cutting edge, this will be an essential reference volume for anyone studying modern and contemporary Gothic culture.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781108652070
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	08/19/2021
Series:	The Cambridge History of the Gothic
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	11 MB
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About the Author

Catherine Spooner is Professor of Literature and Culture at Lancaster University. She has previously published six books; the most recent, Post-Millennial Gothic: Comedy, Romance and the Rise of Happy Gothic (2017), was awarded the Allan Lloyd Smith Memorial Prize. She was co-president of the International Gothic Association 2013–17.
Dale Townshend is Professor of Gothic Literature in the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies, Manchester Metropolitan University. He has published widely on Gothic writing of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and his most recent monograph is Gothic Antiquity: History, Romance, and the Architectural Imagination, 1760–1840 (2019).

Table of Contents

Introduction: A history of gothic studies in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries Catherine Spooner; 1. Gothic and silent cinema Stacey Abbott and Simon Brown; 2. Gothic, the great war and the rise of modernism, 1910‒1936 Matt Foley; 3. Gothic and the American south, 1919‒1962 Arthur Redding; 4. Hollywood gothic, 1930–1960 Mark Jancovich; 5. Gothic and war, 1930–91 Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet; 6. Gothic and the postcolonial moment Tabish Khair; 7. Gothic and the heritage movement in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries Emma McEvoy; 8. Gothic enchantment: The magical strain in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Anglo-American gothic David Punter; 9. Psychoanalysis and the American popular gothic, 1954–1980 Bernice M. Murphy; 10. Gothic and the counterculture, 1958‒Present Catherine Spooner; 11. Gothic television Derek Johnston; 12. Gothic and the rise of feminism Lucie Armitt; 13. Gothic, AIDS and sexuality, 1981–present Ardel Haefele-Thomas; 14. The gothic in the age of neo-liberalism, 1990‒present Linnie Blake; 15. The gothic and remix culture Megen de Bruin-Molé; 16. Postdigital gothic Marc Olivier; 17. Gothic multiculturalism Sarah Ilott; 18. Gothic, neo-imperialism and the war on terror Johan Höglund; 19. Global gothic 1: Islamic gothic Tuğçe Bıçakçı Syed; 20. Global gothic 2: East Asian gothic Daniel Martin; 21. Global gothic 3: Gothic in modern Scandinavia Yvonne Leffler; 22. The 'Bad Oikos': Gothic in an age of environmental crisis Sara L. Crosby; 23. Gothic and the apocalyptic imagination Simon Marsden.

Editorial Reviews

'... the sheer scale and interdisciplinary nature of [this] project multiplies the possible applications of the Gothic mode.' Joellen Mary Delucia, Eighteenth-Century Studies

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