Graveyard Gothic

Eric Parisot, David McAllister, Xavier Aldana Reyes, Eric Parisot, David McAllister, Xavier Aldana Reyes

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN: 9781526166319
• eBook ISBN: 9781526166302
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Gothic, Romance, & Horror Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

Graveyard Gothic is the first sustained consideration of the graveyard as a key Gothic locale. This volume examines various iterations of the Gothic graveyard (and other burial sites) from the eighteenth century to the twenty-first, as expressed in numerous forms of culture and media including poetry, fiction, TV, film and video games. The volume also extends its geographic scope beyond British traditions to accommodate multiple cultural perspectives, including those from the US, Mexico, Japan, Australia, India and Eastern Europe. The seventeen chapters from key international Gothic scholars engage a range of theoretical frameworks, including the historical, material, colonial, political and religious. With a critical introduction offering a platform for further scholarship and a coda mapping potential future critical and cultural developments, Graveyard Gothic is a landmark volume defining a new area of Gothic studies.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of figures
• List of contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: Graveyard Gothic
• 1 The Gothic churchyard in graveyard poetry: cultural remains and literary beginnings
• 2 Graveyard pleasures: visiting (and revisiting) the burial site in late eighteenth-century Gothic fiction
• 3 The last days of the urban burial ground: horror, reform and Gothic fiction
• 4 De-Gothicising the Victorian Gothic graveyard
• 5 Relics and ruins, photographs and fellowship
• 6 The colonial Australian Gothic and the grave
• 7 Weirding the Gothic graveyard
• 8 Graveyards in Western Gothic cinema
• 9 The ventriloquised corpse and the silent dead: Gothic of the British First and Second World Wars
• 10 Home among the headstones: graveyards in Western Gothic television
• 11 The graveyard in neo-Edwardian fiction: refashioning the Victorian death space
• 12 Unstable coordinates: textures, tehkhana and the Gothic in the horror films of the Ramsay brothers
• 13 Conversations with spectres: Mexican graveyards and Gothic returns
• 14 Monsters of history: a tour of the cinematic Slavic cemetery
• 15 Indian burial grounds in American fiction and film
• 16 Adolescent existence and resistance: graveyards as a Gothic chronotope in twenty-first-century fiction for young people
• 17 The graveyard level: anachronism, Anglo-Japanese semiotics and the cruel nightmare of resurrection in early horror video games
• Coda: the futures of graveyard Gothic
• Index