The Edinburgh Companion to Gothic and the Arts / / David Punter.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Punter, David,
• MitwirkendeR: Ancuta, Katarzyna,; Beville, Maria,; Blake, Linnie,; Bloom, Clive,; Bork, Robert,; Bruhm, Steven,; Duggett, Tom,; Elferen, Isabella Van,; Elliott, Kamilla,; Fall, Wendy,; González, Antonio Alcalá,; Haefele-Thomas, Ardel,; Hogle, Jerrold E.,; Horner, Avril,; Ilott, Sarah,; Jackson, Anna,; Jones, David Annwn,; Kirk, Neal,; Leonard, Kendra Preston,; Lindfield, Peter N.,; Lindsay, Stuart,; Miles, Robert,; Parisot, Eric,; Parrino, Maria,; Potter, Franz,; Punter, David,; Reyes, Xavier Aldana,; Round, Julia,; Stobbart, Dawn,; Thomson, Doug,; Townshend, Dale,; Wasson, Sara,; Williams, Anne,; Wisker, Gina,; Wright, Angela,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (520 p.) :; 55 B/W illustrations 18 colour illustrations
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; Notes on Contributors --; Introduction --; Part I: Architectural Arts --; 1. Gothic and Architecture: Morris, Ruskin, Carlyle and the Gothic Legacies of the Lake Poets --; 2. Gothic and the Built Environment: Literary Representations of the Architectural Uncanny and Urban Sublime --; 3. Gothic and Design: The Geometrical Roots of Gothic Aesthetics in the Cologne Cathedral Choir --; 4. Gothic and Sculpture: From Medieval Piety to Modern Horrors and Terrors --; 5. Gothic and Installation Art: Spectral Materialities, Monstrous Ephemera --; Part II: The Visual Arts --; 6. Gothic and Earlier Painting: Nightmares and Premature Burials in Fuseli and Wiertz --; 7. Gothic, Caricature, Cartoon: Insatiable Nightmares --; 8. Gothic and Portraiture: Resemblance and Rupture --; 9. Gothic and Surrealism: Subculture, Counterculture and Cultural Assimilation --; 10. Gothic and Modern Art: The Experience of Ivan Albright --; 11. Gothic and Photography: The Darkest Art --; Part III: Music and the Performance Arts --; 12. Gothic and Music: Scoring ‘Silent’ Spectres --; 13. Gothic and Opera: Overwhelming Passions and Irrational Dreams --; 14. Gothic, Ballet, Dance: The Aesthetics and Kinaesthetics of Death --; 15. Gothic and Contemporary Music: Dark Sound, Dark Mood, Dark Aesthetics --; Part IV: The Literary Arts --; 16. Gothic and Graveyard Poetry: Imagining the Dead (of Night) --; 17. Gothic Chapbooks and Ballads: Making a Long Story Short --; 18. Gothic and Nineteenth-Century Poetry: Thresholds of Influence, Possibilities and Desire --; 19. Gothic and Modern Poetry: The Poetics of Transgression --; 20. Gothic and the Eighteenth-Century Novel: At Home in the English Style --; 21. Gothic and the Nineteenth-Century Novel: The Art of Abjection --; 22. Gothic and Recent Fiction: Fears of the Past and of the Future --; 23. Gothic and the Short Story: Revolutions in Form and Genre --; 24. Gothic, Melodrama, Victorian Theatre: Gothic Drama to 1890 --; 25. Gothic and Modern Theatre: Staging Modern Cultural Trauma --; 26. Gothic and Children’s Literature: Wolves in Walls and Clocks in Crocodiles --; 27. Gothic and Young Adult Literature: Werewolves, Vampires, Monsters, Rebellion, Broken Hearts and True Romance --; Part V: Media and Cultural Arts --; 28. Gothic and Cinema: The Development of an Aesthetic Filmic Mode --; 29. Gothic and Television: The Monster in the Living Room --; 30. Gothic and Comics: From The Haunt of Fear to a Haunted Medium --; 31. Gothic and the Graphic Novel: From the Future Shocks of Judge Dredd to the Aftershocks of DC Vertigo --; 32. Gothic and Video Games: Playing with Fear in the Darkness --; 33. Gothic and Internet Fiction: Digital Affordances and New Media Fears --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781474432375; 9783110780420
• DOI: 10.1515/9781474432375
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: David Punter.

Provides new definitions of the Gothic in a variety of artistic contextsExplores a range of Gothic from architecture through literature to music and the technological artsProvides an opportunity to hear new thinking from established scholars as well as showcasing work by new scholarsHighlights new definitions of the Gothic from a wide variety of perspectivesThe Gothic in all its artistic forms and ramifications is traced from the medieval to the twenty-first century. From architecture, painting and sculpture through music, ballet, opera and dance to installation art and the graphic novel, each of the 33 chapters reflects on and weighs in on the ways in which the Gothic is taken up in the art forms and modes under examination. An Introduction discusses Gothic as a changing cultural form across the centuries with deep psychological roots. This is followed by sections on: architectural arts; the visual arts; music and the performance arts; the literary arts; and media and cultural arts.