These essays explore some of the most significant current issues concerning the terrain of the Gothic perspective, offering a variety of possible answers to the crucial question: What is Gothic? The collection begins by addressing general issues about the locations and structure of Gothic; this is followed by various considerations of Gothic as a specific historical phenomenon, linked with specific aspects of British, American, and European society; and, finally, by an exploration of Gothic writing during recent decades.
These essays explore some of the most significant current issues concerning the terrain of the Gothic perspective, offering a variety of possible answ...
Byron presents the variety of the genre, including its history from Donne, to today's stand-up comedy, definitions, and key issues such as subjectivity, gender and politics.
Byron presents the variety of the genre, including its history from Donne, to today's stand-up comedy, definitions, and key issues such as subjectivit...
The Gothic World offers an overview of this popular field whilst also extending critical debate in exciting new directions such as film, politics, fashion, architecture, fine art and cyberculture. Structured around the principles of time, space and practice, and including a detailed general introduction, the five sections look at:
Gothic Histories
Gothic Spaces
Gothic Readers and Writers
Gothic Spectacle
Contemporary Impulses.
"The Gothic World" seeks to account for the Gothic as a multi-faceted, multi-dimensional force, as a style,...
The Gothic World offers an overview of this popular field whilst also extending critical debate in exciting new directions such as film, politics, ...
'The dead travel fast and, in our contemporary globalised world, so too does the gothic.' Examining how gothic has been globalised and globalisation made gothic, this collection of essays explores an emerging globalgothic that is simultaneously a continuation of the western tradition and a wholesale transformation of that tradition which expands the horizons of the gothic in diverse new and exciting ways. Globalgothic contains essays from some of the leading scholars in gothic studies as well as offering insights from new scholars in the field. The contributors consider a wide range of...
'The dead travel fast and, in our contemporary globalised world, so too does the gothic.' Examining how gothic has been globalised and globalisation m...
This collection of essays redefines what gothic has become in the contemporary world, examining the idea of an emerging gothic that is inextricable from the broader global context in which it circulates. Simultaneously a continuation of the western tradition and a wholesale transformation of that tradition, 'globalgothic' expands the horizons of the genre in diverse new and exciting ways.
As these essays well demonstrate, gothic has energetically participated in the cultural flows that characterise globalisation. One of the more striking features of western gothic has always...
This collection of essays redefines what gothic has become in the contemporary world, examining the idea of an emerging gothic that is inextricable...
