A New Companion to the Gothic

Herausgegeben von Punter, David

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Produktbeschreibung

The thoroughly expanded and updated New Companion to the Gothic, provides a series of stimulating insights into Gothic writing, its history and genealogy. The addition of 12 new essays and a section on 'Global Gothic' reflects the direction Gothic criticism has taken over the last decade.
* Many of the original essays have been revised to reflect current debates
* Offers comprehensive coverage of criticism of the Gothic and of the various theoretical approaches it has inspired and spawned
* Features important and original essays by leading scholars in the field
* The editor is widely recognized as the founder of modern criticism of the Gothic

Produktdetails

• Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 576
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 981g
• ISBN-13: 9781119062509
• ISBN-10: 1119062500
• Artikelnr.: 41787220

Autorenporträt

David Punter is Professor of English at the University of Bristol. He has written extensively on Gothic, romantic, and modern literature, literary theory, and psychoanalysis, as well as producing four volumes of poetry. His recent publications include The Gothic (with Glennis Byron, Blackwell, 2004), Metaphor (2007), Modernity (2007), and Rapture: Literature, Addiction, Secrecy (2009).

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors x Acknowledgments xvii Introduction: The Ghost of a
History 1 David Punter Part I. Gothic Backgrounds 11 1 In Gothic Darkly:
Heterotopia, History, Culture 13 Fred Botting 2 The Goths in History and
Pre-Gothic Gothic 25 Robin Sowerby 3 Gothic Shakespeare 38 Dale Townshend 4
European Gothic 64 Neil Cornwell 5 The Gothic Ballad 77 Douglass H. Thomson
Part II. The Original Gothic 91 6 Ann Radcliffe and Matthew Lewis 93 Robert
Miles 7 Mary Shelley, Author of Frankenstein 110 Nora Crook 8 Walter Scott,
James Hogg, and Scottish Gothic 123 Ian Duncan 9 Irish Gothic: C. R.
Maturin and J. S. LeFanu 135 Victor Sage 10 The Political Culture of Gothic
Drama 148 David Worrall Part III. Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century
Transformations 161 11 Nineteenth-Century American Gothic 163 Allan Lloyd
Smith 12 The Ghost Story 176 Julia Briggs 13 Gothic in the 1890s 186
Glennis Byron 14 Fictional Vampires in the Nineteenth and Twentieth
Centuries 197 William Hughes 15 Horror Fiction: In Search of a Definition
211 Clive Bloom 16 Love Bites: Contemporary Women's Vampire Fictions 224
Gina Wisker 17 Gothic Film 239 Heidi Kaye 18 Shape and Shadow: On Poetry
and the Uncanny 252 David Punter Part IV. Gothic Theory and Genre 265 19
Gothic Criticism 267 Chris Baldick and Robert Mighall 20 The Gothic Sublime
288 Vijay Mishra 21 Psychoanalysis and the Gothic 307 Michelle A. Massé 22
Comic Gothic 321 Avril Horner and Sue Zlosnik 23 Gothic and the Graphic
Novel 335 Julia Round 24 Goth Culture 350 Catherine Spooner Part V. The
Globalization of Gothic 367 25 Global Gothic 369 Glennis Byron 26
Australian Gothic 379 Ken Gelder 27 New Zealand Gothic 393 Ian Conrich 28
Canadian Gothic 409 Cynthia Sugars 29 Asian Gothic 428 Katarzyna Ancuta 30
Japanese Gothic 442 Charles Shirô Inouye Part VI. The Continuing Debate 455
31 Can You Forgive Her? The Gothic Heroine and Her Critics 457 Kate
Ferguson Ellis 32 Picture This: Stephen King's Queer Gothic 469 Steven
Bruhm 33 Seeing Things: Gothic and the Madness of Interpretation 481 Scott
Brewster 34 The Gothic Ghost of the Counterfeit and the Progress of
Abjection 496 Jerrold E. Hogle 35 The Magical Realism of the Contemporary
Gothic 510 Lucie Armitt 36 Welcome the Coming, Speed the Parting Guest:
Hospitality and the Gothic 523 Joanne Watkiss Index 535

Rezensionen

From reviews of the previous edition:

"It offers a range of strategies for understanding the genre, and is an excellent resource for students, teachers, and scholars of the Gothic." Gothic Studies

"[Its] obvious value ... is its wealth of critical approaches - from good, old-fashioned 'history of ideas' readings to the most sophisticated of recent theory." Romanticism on the Net

"The book does not offer a house view of what Gothic is, but instead faithfully reproduces the status of current debates on the relevant genres. Many essays provide useful summaries of criticism or of primary texts; others offer new critical insights." Times Higher Education

"The individual essays are narrow enough to describe discrete topics but useful to newcomer and scholar alike ... Punter's volume is sure to be a standard reference for some time to come for undergraduates and scholars." Choice

"Anyone lucky enough to have this volume sitting on their shelves has instant access to the recent thinking of a long list of scholars who have led the way in Gothic studies. The book is a veritable Baedeker's guide that ranges from the historical Goths of the third century to Stephen King in the twentieth century; that explores dimensions of Gothic through painting and cinema, as well as written texts; that roams across Europe and America as well as the British Isles. Punter himself contributes a concise but stimulating introduction." Studies in Hogg and His World