Continuing the University of Wales Press s acclaimed series of explorations of the Gothic and its legacy, "Twentieth-Century Gothic" focuses on the continuing presence of the gothic in the long twentieth century, from "The Turn of the Screw" to Sarah Waters s "The Little Stranger," with looks along the way at the work of Clive Barker, Angela Carter, Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, and more. Addressing the question of why we are fascinated by ghosts, demons, and monsters of all sorts, despite the professed rationality of our society, Armitt shows how such stories of these supernatural...

"Gothic Contemporaries "is the first study to align twenty-first-century fiction with a revised understanding of the Gothic. Through close readings of several twenty-first-century novels including "The Story of Lucy Gault "by William Trevor, "The Sea "by John Banville, "The Gathering "by Anne Enright, and others and drawing ideas from Jacques Derrida s later works, Joanne Watkiss demonstrates how contemporary fiction reworks the traditional ghost stories of the past. Among the numerous themes Watkins explores are the links between memory and haunting; the architectural function of...

In "Queer Others in Victorian "Gothic, Ardel Haefele-Thomas examines a number of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Gothic novels, short stories, and films through the lens of queer cultural studies. In some of these works, as Haefele-Thomas demonstrates, the author or filmmaker fully intended to explore the complicated landscape of queer sexuality and gender identity.In most, however, the author or filmmaker s intentions are unclear.Haefele-Thomas takes on these works, first employing queer in its nineteenth-century historical context, to point to their generally weird, odd, or ill...