"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...

"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...