Twentieth-Century Gothic : : An Edinburgh Companion / / ed. by Sorcha Ni Fhlainn.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
• MitwirkendeR: Brewster, Scott,; Corstorphine, Kevin,; Downey, Dara,; Fhlainn, Sorcha Ní,; Foley, Matt,; Hantke, Steffen,; Hoedt, Madelon,; Kremmel, Laura R.,; Leeder, Murray,; Liggins, Emma,; Maguire, Muireann,; Monnet, Agnieszka Soltysik,; Murphy, Bernice M.,; Reyes, Xavier Aldana,; Tidwell, Christy,; Westengard, Laura,; Wester, Maisha,; Wright, Julia M.,
• HerausgeberIn: Ni Fhlainn, Sorcha,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh Companions to the Gothic : ECG
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (328 p.)

The most extensive and up-to-date volume of essays on the Gothic mode in twentieth century cultureIncludes eighteen chapters and an introduction by the editors which provide an expansive and ambitious overview of key concepts and themes pertaining to the twentieth-century GothicTopics are discussed via a twenty-first century contextual and theoretical lensProvides a useful teaching tool for teachers and lecturers who wish to provide undergraduate and postgraduate students with a timely and accessible overview of key texts and topics associated with the Gothic in the twentieth centuryIncludes supplementary material such as the suggested further reading prompts at the end of each chapter are intended to facilitate further independent research by readers and researchersDuring the latter half of the twentieth century the Gothic emerged as one of the liveliest and most significant areas of academic inquiry within literary, film, and popular culture studies. This volume covers the key concepts and developments associated with Twentieth-Century Gothic, tracing the development of the mode from the fin de siècle to 9/11. The eighteen chapters reflect the interdisciplinary and ever-evolving nature of the Gothic, which, during the century, migrated from literature and drama to the cinema and television. The volume has both a chronological and thematic focus and particular attention is paid to topics and themes related to race, identity, marginality and technology. Chapters on ecogothic, Gothic Studies as a discipline, Medical Humanities, Queer studies, African American Studies and Russian Gothic ensure that the collection is up-to-date and wide-ranging. In addition to the Introduction by the editors, suggested further readings at the end of each chapter are intended to facilitate further independent research by readers and researchers.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Going to Extremes – The Gothic in the Twentieth Century -- Part I Gothic Evolutions -- Chapter 1 The Edwardian Supernatural -- Chapter 2 Weird Fiction in the Twentieth Century -- Chapter 3 Gothic Modernisms -- Chapter 4 Gothic Criticism in the Twentieth Century: Who is This Who is Coming? -- Part II The Gothic and Technology/Transmedia Considerations -- Chapter 5 The Birth of an Evil Thought: The Gothic in Silent-Era Cinema -- Chapter 6 Grand-Guignol as Twentieth-Century Gothic Drama -- Chapter 7 Mid-Century Gothic Cinema (1931–79): From Monster Business to Exploitation Horror -- Chapter 8 The Unheimlich State: Surveillance and the Digital Nation -- Chapter 9 Gothic Horror Films at the ‘Fin-de-Millennium’: From Nightmare Videos to Filtered Realities (1980–2000) -- Part III Key Themes and Topics in Twentieth-Century Gothic -- Chapter 10 Twentieth-Century War Gothic -- Chapter 11 Russian Twentieth-Century Gothic: The Irrepressible Undead -- Chapter 12 The Gothic 1950s -- Chapter 13 Masks of Sanity: Psychopathy and the Twentieth-Century Gothic -- Chapter 14 Troubling Legacies: African American Women’s Gothic from Zora Neale Hurston to Tananarive Due -- Chapter 15 Medical Humanities and the Twentieth-Century Gothic -- Chapter 16 Queer Gothic Literature and Culture -- Chapter 17 ‘Nightmares of the Normative’: African American Gothic and the Rejection of the American Ideal -- Chapter 18 Big Bad Wolves and Angry Sharks: The Ecogothic and a Century of Environmental Change -- Notes on Contributors -- Index