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Twentieth-Century Gothic
An Edinburgh Companion
Edited by Sorcha Ni Fhlainn and Bernice M. Murphy
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Book Presentation:
The most extensive and up-to-date volume of essays on the Gothic mode in twentieth century culture
• Includes eighteen chapters and an introduction by the editors which provide an expansive and ambitious overview of key concepts and themes pertaining to the twentieth-century Gothic
• Topics are discussed via a twenty-first century contextual and theoretical lens
• Provides a useful teaching tool for teachers and lecturers who wish to provide undergraduate and postgraduate students with a timely and accessible overview of key texts and topics associated with the Gothic in the twentieth century
• Includes supplementary material such as the suggested further reading prompts at the end of each chapter are intended to facilitate further independent research by readers and researchers
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 siècle 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.
About the authors:
Sorcha Ní 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.
Press Reviews:
A survey of a field as broad as Gothic in the twentieth century might seem impossible, but this book fulfils the task admirably. Ranging across fiction, film, theatre and technological media and picking up themes as various as war, surveillance, ethnicity and medicine, these essays are essential and elegant contributions to the study of the Gothic.
– David Punter, University of Bristol
See the publisher website: Edinburgh University Press
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