The Gothic and Death

Carol Margaret Davison is Professor and Head of Department of the English Language, Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Windsor

Introduction - The corpse in the closet: the gothic, death, and modernity - Carol Margaret Davison

Part I: Gothic graveyards and afterlives

1. Past, present and future death in the graveyard - Serena Trowbridge

2. On the very verge of legitimate invention': Charles Bonnet and Blake's illustrations to The Grave (1808)' - Sibylle Erle

3. Entranced by death: Horace Smith's Mesmerism - Bruce Wyse

Part II: Gothic revolutions and undead histories

4. "This dreadful machine": the spectacle of death and the aesthetics of crowd control - Emma Galbally and Conrad Brunström

5. Undying histories: Washington Irving's gothic afterlives - Yael Maurer

6. Deadly interrogations: cycles of death and transcendence in Byron's gothic - Adam White

Part III: Gothic apocalypses: dead selves/dead civilizations

7. The annihilation of self and Species: The ecogothic sensibilities of Mary Shelley and Nathaniel Hawthorne - Jennifer Schell

8. Death cults in gothic "lost world" fiction' - John Cameron Hartley

9. Dead again: zombies and the spectre of cultural decline - Matthew Pangborn

Part IV: Global gothic dead

10. A double dose of death in Iginio Ugo Tarchetti's "I Fatali" - Christina Petraglia

11. Through the opaque veil: the gothic and death in Russian realism - Katherine Bowers

12. Afterdeath and the Bollywood gothic noir - Vijay Mishra

Part V: Twenty-first century gothic and death

13. Dead and ghostly children in contemporary literature for young people - Michelle J. Smith


14. Modernity's fatal addictions: technological necromancy and E. Elias Merhige's Shadow of the Vampire' - Carol Margaret Davison

15. "I'm not in that thing you know ... I'm remote. I'm in the cloud": networked spectrality in Charlie Brooker's "Be Right Back" - Neal Kirk

Index