Twentieth-Century Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion

During the latter half of the twentieth century the Gothic emerged as one of the liveliest and most significant areas of academic inquiry within literary, film, and popular culture studies. This volume covers the key concepts and developments associated with Twentieth-Century Gothic, tracing the development of the mode from the fin de si?cle to 9/11. The eighteen chapters reflect the interdisciplinary and ever-evolving nature of the Gothic, which, during the century, migrated from literature and drama to the cinema and television. The volume has both a chronological and thematic focus and particular attention is paid to topics and themes related to race, identity, marginality and technology. Chapters on ecoGothic, Gothic Studies as a discipline, Medical Humanities, Queer Studies, African American Studies and Russian Gothic ensure that the collection is up-to-date and wide-ranging. In addition to the Introduction by the editors, suggested further readings at the end of each chapter are intended to facilitate further independent research by readers and researchers.

Author: Sorcha Ni Fhlainn
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 02/12/2024
Pages: 328
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.04lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781474490139

About the Author

Sorcha N? Fhlainn is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies and American Studies and founding member of the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University. She is the author of Postmodern Vampires: Film, Fiction, and Popular Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) which was awarded the Lord Ruthven Prize in 2020 and the editor of Clive Barker: Dark Imaginer (Manchester University Press, 2017) The Worlds of Back to the Future: Critical essays on the films (Macfarland, 2010) and Our Monstrous (S)kin: Blurring the Boundaries Between Monsters and Humanity (The Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2010).

Bernice M. Murphy is an Associate Professor and Lecturer in Popular Literature in the School of English, Trinity College, Dublin. She has published extensively on topics related to American Gothic and horror fiction and film and was recently academic consultant to The Letters of Shirley Jackson (2021, edited by Laurence Jackson Hyman). Bernice was made a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin in 2017.