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

Catherine Spooner, Dale Townshend

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN:
  9781108472722
• eBook ISBN:
  9781108698726
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: English Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title page
• Series page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• List of Figures
• Notes on Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: A History of Gothic Studies in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries
• 3.1 Gothic and Silent Cinema
• 3.2 Gothic, the Great War and the Rise of Modernism, 1910‒1936
• 3.3 Gothic and the American South, 1919‒1962
• 3.4 Hollywood Gothic, 1930–1960
• 3.5 Gothic and War, 1930‒1991
• 3.6 Gothic and the Postcolonial Moment
• 3.7 Gothic and the Heritage Movement in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
• 3.8 Gothic Enchantment: The Magical Strain in Twentieth and Twenty-First-Century Anglo-American Gothic
• 3.9 Psychoanalysis and the American Popular Gothic, 1954–1980
• 3.10 Gothic and the Counterculture, 1958‒Present
• 3.11 Gothic Television
• 3.12 Gothic and the Rise of Feminism
• 3.13 Gothic, AIDS and Sexuality, 1981–Present
• 3.14 The Gothic in the Age of Neo-Liberalism, 1990‒Present
• 3.15 The Gothic and Remix Culture
• 3.16 Postdigital Gothic
• 3.17 Gothic Multiculturalism
• 3.18 Gothic, Neo-Imperialism and the War on Terror
• 3.19 Global Gothic 1: Islamic Gothic
• 3.20 Global Gothic 2: East Asian Gothic
• 3.21 Global Gothic 3: Gothic in Modern Scandinavia
• 3.22 Gothic in an Age of Environmental Crisis
• 3.23 Gothic and the Apocalyptic Imagination
• Select Bibliography and Filmography
• Index