Gothic Modernisms

A. Smith, J. Wallace, A. Smith, J. Wallace

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2001
• Print ISBN: 9780333918739
• eBook ISBN: 9780333985236
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Film & Video
• Index: Social Sciences

This is the first full length exploration of the relationship between Gothic fiction and Modernism in fiction and film. The Gothic's fascination with images of the fragmented self is echoed in the Modernist concern with the psyche and the paranoia of the everyday. The contributors explore how the Gothic influences a range of writers including James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, May Sinclair, Elizabeth Bowen and Djuna Barnes.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Notes on the Contributors
• Introduction: Gothic Modernisms: History, Culture and Aesthetics
• 1 Hungry Ghosts and Foreign Bodies
• 2 The ‘Spectrality Effect’ in Early Modernism
• 3 ‘Psychical’ Cases: Transformations of the Supernatural in Virginia Woolf and May Sinclair
• 4 The Ghost and the Omnibus: the Gothic Virginia Woolf
• 5 Strolling in the Dark: Gothic Flânerie in Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood
• 6 ‘Thick Within Our Hair’: Djuna Barnes’s Gothic Lovers
• 7 ‘The stern task of living’: Dubliners, Clerks, Money and Modernism
• 8 The Modernist Abominations of William Hope Hodgson
• 9 Vampirism, Masculinity and Degeneracy: D.H. Lawrence’s Modernist Gothic
• 10 Arctic Masks in a Castle of Ice: Gothic Vorticism and Wyndham Lewis’s Self Condemned
• 11 Metropolis and the Modernist Gothic
• 12 Hollywood Gothic/Gothic Hollywood: the Example of Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard
• Index