A Companion to the Gothic

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.

David Punter is Professor of English at University of Bristol. He has written extensively on Gothic, romantic and modern literature, as well as on literary theory and psychoanalysis, and has also published short stories and several volumes of poetry. He is chair of the executive of the International Gothic Association, as well as Past President of the British Association for Romantic Studies. His publications include The Literature of Terror: Volume 1: The Gothic Tradition and The Literature of Terror: Volume 2: The Modern Gothic.

Introduction: The Ghost of a History

viii

Notes on Contributors

xv

Acknowledgements

xx

PART ONE Gothic Backgrounds

1

(38)

In Gothic Darkly: Heterotopia, History, Culture

3

(12)

Fred Botting

The Goths in History and Pre-Gothic Gothic

15

(12)

Robin Sowerby

European Gothic

27

(12)

Neil Cornwell

PART TWO The `Original' Gothic

39

(68)

Ann Radcliffe and Matthew Lewis

41

(17)

Robert Miles

Mary Shelley, Author of Frankenstein

58

(12)

Nora Crook

Walter Scott, James Hogg and Scottish Gothic

70

(11)

Ian Duncan

Irish Gothic: C. R. Maturin and J. S. LeFanu

81

(13)

Victor Sage

The Political Culture of Gothic Drama

94

(13)

David Worrall

PART THREE Nineteenth-and Twentieth-Century Transmutations

107

(100)

Nineteenth-Century American Gothic

109

(13)

Allan Lloyd-Smith

The Ghost Story

122

(10)

Julia Briggs

Gothic in the 1890s

132

(11)

Glennis Byron

Fictional Vampires in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

143

(12)

William Hughes

Horror Fiction: In Search of a Definition

155

(12)

Clive Bloom

Love Bites: Contemporary Women's Vampire Fictions

167

(13)

Gina Wisker

Gothic Film

180

(13)

Heidi Kaye

Shape and Shadow: On Poetry and the Uncanny

193

(14)

David Punter

PART FOUR Gothic Theory and Genre

207

(48)

Gothic Criticism

209

(20)

Chris Baldick

Robert Mighall

Psychoanalysis and the Gothic

229

(13)

Michelle A. Masse

Comic Gothic

242

(13)

Avril Horner

Sue Zlosnik

PART FIVE The Continuing Debate

255

(62)

Can You Forgive Her? The Gothic Heroine and Her Critics

257

(12)

Kate Ferguson Ellis

Picture This: Stephen King's Queer Gothic

269

(12)

Steven Bruhm

Seeing Things: Gothic and the Madness of Interpretation

281

(12)

Scott Brewster

The Gothic Ghost of the Counterfeit and the Progress of Abjection

293

(12)

Jerrold E. Hogle

The Magical Realism of the Contemporary Gothic

305

(12)

Lucie Armitt

Index

317

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A Companion to the Gothic

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