The Cambridge History of the Gothic: Volume 3, Gothic in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
Volume 3: Gothic in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

The first volume to provide an interdisciplinary, comprehensive history of twentieth and twenty-first century Gothic culture.

Catherine Spooner (Edited by), Dale Townshend (Edited by)

9781108472722, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 19 August 2021

552 pages
23.6 x 16 x 3 cm, 1.01 kg

'... the sheer scale and interdisciplinary nature of [this] project multiplies the possible applications of the Gothic mode.' Joellen Mary Delucia, Eighteenth-Century Studies

The third volume of The Cambridge History of the Gothic is the first book to provide an in-depth history of Gothic literature, film, television and culture in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries (c. 1896-present). Identifying key historical shifts from the birth of film to the threat of apocalypse, leading international scholars offer comprehensive coverage of the ideas, events, movements and contexts that shaped the Gothic as it entered a dynamic period of diversification across all forms of media. Twenty-three chapters plus an extended introduction provide in-depth accounts of topics including Modernism, war, postcolonialism, psychoanalysis, counterculture, feminism, AIDS, neo-liberalism, globalisation, multiculturalism, the war on terror and environmental crisis. Provocative and cutting edge, this will be an essential reference volume for anyone studying modern and contemporary Gothic culture.

Introduction: A history of gothic studies in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries Catherine Spooner
1. Gothic and silent cinema Stacey Abbott and Simon Brown
2. Gothic, the great war and the rise of modernism, 1910?1936 Matt Foley
3. Gothic and the American south, 1919?1962 Arthur Redding
4. Hollywood gothic, 1930–1960 Mark Jancovich
5. Gothic and war, 1930–91 Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet
6. Gothic and the postcolonial moment Tabish Khair
7. Gothic and the heritage movement in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries Emma McEvoy
8. Gothic enchantment: The magical strain in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Anglo-American gothic David Punter
9. Psychoanalysis and the American popular gothic, 1954–1980 Bernice M. Murphy
10. Gothic and the counterculture, 1958?Present Catherine Spooner
11. Gothic television Derek Johnston
12. Gothic and the rise of feminism Lucie Armitt
13. Gothic, AIDS and sexuality, 1981–present Ardel Haefele-Thomas
14. The gothic in the age of neo-liberalism, 1990?present Linnie Blake
15. The gothic and remix culture Megen de Bruin-Molé
16. Postdigital gothic Marc Olivier
17. Gothic multiculturalism Sarah Ilott
18. Gothic, neo-imperialism and the war on terror Johan Höglund
19. Global gothic 1: Islamic gothic Tu?çe B?çakç? Syed
20. Global gothic 2: East Asian gothic Daniel Martin
21. Global gothic 3: Gothic in modern Scandinavia Yvonne Leffler
22. The 'Bad Oikos': Gothic in an age of environmental crisis Sara L. Crosby
23. Gothic and the apocalyptic imagination Simon Marsden.

Subject Areas: Cultural studies [JFC], Literary studies: from c 1900 - [DSBH], Literary studies: general [DSB], Theatre studies [AN], History of architecture [AMX], History of art & design styles: from c 1900 - [ACX]