The Gothic and death

An interdisciplinary collection providing new perspective on the interface between the gothic and death, with fresh readings of established, overlooked and recent Gothic works across a variety of cultural and literary forms.

An interdisciplinary collection providing new perspective on the interface between the gothic and death, with fresh readings of established, overlooked and recent Gothic works across a variety of cultural and literary forms. -- .

Introduction - The corpse in the closet: the Gothic, death, and modernity - Carol Margaret DavisonPart I: Gothic graveyards and afterlives1. Past, present, and future death in the graveyard - Serena Trowbridge2. On the very Verge of legitimate Invention': Charles Bonnet and Blake's illustrations to The Grave (1808)' - Sibylle Erle3. Entranced by death: Horace Smith's Mesmerism - Bruce WysePart II: Gothic revolutions and undead histories4. 'This dreadful machine': the spectacle of death and the aesthetics of crowd control - Emma Galbally and Conrad Brunström5. Undying histories: Washington Irving's Gothic afterlives - Yael Maurer6. Deadly interrogations: cycles of death and transcendence in Byron's Gothic - Adam WhitePart III: Gothic apocalypses: dead selves/dead civilizations7. The annihilation of self and species: The ecoGothic sensibilities of Mary Shelley and Nathaniel Hawthorne - Jennifer Schell8. Death cults in Gothic 'Lost World' fiction - John Cameron Hartley9. Dead again: zombies and the spectre of cultural decline - Matthew PangbornPart IV: Global Gothic dead10. A double dose of death in Iginio Ugo Tarchetti's 'I fatali' - Christina Petraglia11. Through the opaque veil: the Gothic and death in Russian realism - Katherine Bowers12. Afterdeath and the Bollywood Gothic noir - Vijay MishraPart V: Twenty-first century gothic and death13. Dead and ghostly children in contemporary literature for young people - Michelle J. Smith14. Modernity's fatal addictions: technological necromancy and E. Elias Merhige's Shadow of the Vampire - Carol Margaret Davison15. 'I'm not in that thing you know ... I'm remote. I'm in the cloud': networked spectrality in Charlie Brooker's 'Be Right Back' - Neal KirkIndex