A New Companion to The Gothic Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture Series

The thoroughly expanded and updated New Companion to the Gothic, provides a series of stimulating insights into Gothic writing, its history and genealogy. The addition of 12 new essays and a section on ?Global Gothic? reflects the direction Gothic criticism has taken over the last decade.

• Many of the original essays have been revised to reflect current debates
• Offers comprehensive coverage of criticism of the Gothic and of the various theoretical approaches it has inspired and spawned
• Features important and original essays by leading scholars in the field
• The editor is widely recognized as the founder of modern criticism of the Gothic

Notes on Contributors x

Acknowledgments xvii

Introduction: The Ghost of a History 1
David Punter

Part I. Gothic Backgrounds 11

1 In Gothic Darkly: Heterotopia, History, Culture 13
Fred Botting

2 The Goths in History and Pre-Gothic Gothic 25
Robin Sowerby

3 Gothic Shakespeare 38
Dale Townshend

4 European Gothic 64
Neil Cornwell

5 The Gothic Ballad 77
Douglass H. Thomson

Part II. The Original Gothic 91

6 Ann Radcliffe and Matthew Lewis 93
Robert Miles

7 Mary Shelley, Author of Frankenstein 110
Nora Crook

8 Walter Scott, James Hogg, and Scottish Gothic 123
Ian Duncan

9 Irish Gothic: C. R. Maturin and J. S. LeFanu 135
Victor Sage

10 The Political Culture of Gothic Drama 148
David Worrall

Part III. Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Transformations 161

11 Nineteenth-Century American Gothic 163
Allan Lloyd Smith

12 The Ghost Story 176
Julia Briggs

13 Gothic in the 1890s 186
Glennis Byron

14 Fictional Vampires in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 197
William Hughes

15 Horror Fiction: In Search of a Definition 211
Clive Bloom

16 Love Bites: Contemporary Women’s Vampire Fictions 224
Gina Wisker

17 Gothic Film 239
Heidi Kaye

18 Shape and Shadow: On Poetry and the Uncanny 252
David Punter

Part IV. Gothic Theory and Genre 265

19 Gothic Criticism 267
Chris Baldick and Robert Mighall

20 The Gothic Sublime 288
Vijay Mishra

21 Psychoanalysis and the Gothic 307
Michelle A. Massé

22 Comic Gothic 321
Avril Horner and Sue Zlosnik

23 Gothic and the Graphic Novel 335
Julia Round

24 Goth Culture 350
Catherine Spooner

Part V. The Globalization of Gothic 367

25 Global Gothic 369
Glennis Byron

26 Australian Gothic 379
Ken Gelder

27 New Zealand Gothic 393
Ian Conrich

28 Canadian Gothic 409
Cynthia Sugars

29 Asian Gothic 428
Katarzyna Ancuta

30 Japanese Gothic 442
Charles Shirō Inouye

Part VI. The Continuing Debate 455

31 Can You Forgive Her? The Gothic Heroine and Her Critics 457
Kate Ferguson Ellis

32 Picture This: Stephen King’s Queer Gothic 469
Steven Bruhm

33 Seeing Things: Gothic and the Madness of Interpretation 481
Scott Brewster

34 The Gothic Ghost of the Counterfeit and the Progress of Abjection 496
Jerrold E. Hogle

35 The Magical Realism of the Contemporary Gothic 510
Lucie Armitt

36 Welcome the Coming, Speed the Parting Guest: Hospitality and the Gothic 523
Joanne Watkiss Index 535

David Punter is Professor of English at the University of Bristol. He has written extensively on Gothic, romantic, and modern literature, literary theory, and psychoanalysis, as well as producing four volumes of poetry. His recent publications include The Gothic (with Glennis Byron, Blackwell, 2004), Metaphor (2007), Modernity (2007), and Rapture: Literature, Addiction, Secrecy (2009).