A Companion to the Gothic [Paperback]

This Companion is a standard reference work for scholars and students of the Gothic from its origins to the present day. Providing stimulating insights into Gothic writing, its history and genealogy, it offers coverage of criticism of the Gothic and of the various theoretical approaches it has inspired and spawned.Introduction: The Ghost of a History.

Notes on Contributors.

Acknowledgements.

PART ONE. GOTHIC BACKGROUNDS.

1. In Gothic Darkly: Heterotopia, History, Culture (Fred Botting).

2. The Goths in History and Pre-Gothic Gothic (Robin Sowerby).

3. European Gothic (Neil Cornwell).

PART TWO. THE ‘ORIGINAL’ GOTHIC.

4. Ann Radcliffe and Matthew Lewis (Robert Miles).

5. Mary Shelley, Arthur of Frankenstein (Nora Crook).

6. Walter Scott, James Hogg and Scottish Gothic (Ian Duncan).

7. Irish Gothic: C.R. Maturin and J.S. LeFanu (Victor Sage).

8. The Political Culture of Gothic Drama (David Worrall).

PART THREE. NINETEENTH-AND TWENTIETH-CENTURY TRANSMUTATIONS.

9. Nineteenth-Century American Gothic (Allan Lloyd-Smith).

10. The Ghost Story (Julia Briggs).

11. Gothic in the 1890s (Glennis Byron).

12. Fictional Vampires in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (William Hughes).

13. Horror Fiction: In Search of a Definition (Clive Bloom).

14. Love Bites: Contemporary Women’s Vampire Fictions (Gina Wisker).

15. Gothic Film (Heidi Kaye).

16. Shape and Shadow: On Poetry and the Uncanny (David Punter).

PART FOUR. GOTHIC THEORY AND GENRE.