Le Gothic Influences and Appropriations in Europe and America [Hardcover]

This new collection of essays by major scholars in the field looks at the ways in which cross-fertilization has taken place in Gothic writing from France, Germany, Britain and America over the last 200 years, and argues that Gothic writing reflects international exchanges in theme and form.List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; A.Horner& S.Zlosnik PART ONE: THE PARIS NEXUS Hugo's Notre Dame, Leroux's Fant?me de l'Op?ra and the Changing Functions of the Gothic; J.E.Hogle Edgar Allen Poe in Paris: The Fl?neur, the D?tournement and the Gothic Spaces of the Nineteenth-Century City; L.Blake Blood in Paris: Transformations of Revolutionary Gothic in Henry James and Elizabeth Bowen; R.Ingelbien PART TWO: CHANNEL CROSSINGS The Cult of Rousseau in Women's Gothic Writing in the 1790s; A.Wright Huysmans, Machen and the Gothic Grotesque, Or: The Way Up is the Way Down; A.Milbank Gothic Permutations from the 1790s to the 1970s: Re-thinking the Marquis de Sade's Legacy; M.Vara Dracula's Daughters: Angela Carter and Pierrette Fleutiaux's Vampiric Exchanges; R.Munford PART THREE: TRANSATLANTIC VOYAGES Beast's Triumph over Beauty in Gothic Film; K.J.Gentile 'Who is the third who walks always beside you?': Eliot, Stoker and Stetson in The Waste Land; W.Hughes Calvinist Gothic: The Case of Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland, or the Transformation and James Hogg's The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner; C.M.Davison Colonial Ghosts: Mimicking Dickens in America; A.Smith PART THREE: CODA: OTHER DIRECTIONS Translating Technologies: Dickens, Kafka and the Gothic; B.Murnane A Voyage through the Phantom Museum; D.Punter Index

'Le Gothic makes essential reading for both comparativists and scholars of the genre.' Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts

LINNIE BLAKE is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at Manchester Metropolitan University, UKCAROL MARGARET DAVISON is Associate Professor of English Literature at tlÃÊ