Post-Millennial Gothic
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Post-Millennial Gothic

Comedy, Romance and the Rise of Happy Gothic

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Post-Millennial Gothic

Comedy, Romance and the Rise of Happy Gothic

About this book

Surveying the widespread appropriations of the Gothic in contemporary literature and culture, Post-Millennial Gothic shows contemporary Gothic is often romantic, funny and celebratory. Reading a wide range of popular texts, from Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series through Tim Burton's Gothic film adaptations of Sweeney Todd, Alice in Wonderland and Dark Shadows, to the appearance of Gothic in fashion, advertising and television, Catherine Spooner argues that conventional academic and media accounts of Gothic culture have overlooked this celebratory strain of 'Happy Gothic'. Identifying a shift in subcultural sensibilities following media coverage of the Columbine shootings, Spooner suggests that changing perceptions of Goth subculture have shaped the development of 21st-century Gothic. Reading these contemporary trends back into their sources, Spooner also explores how they serve to highlight previously neglected strands of comedy and romance in earlier Gothic literature.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Figures
  10. Introduction: Post-Millennial Gothic
  11. 1 Consuming the Edible Graveyard: Gothic Lifestyles and Lifestyle Gothic
  12. 2 ‘The images, for me, are the story’: Tim Burton’s Gothic Aesthetics
  13. 3 ‘Forget Nu Rave, We’re Into Nu Grave!’: High Street Style and the Uses of Gothic Romance
  14. 4 Gothic Charm School, or, How Vampires Learned to Sparkle
  15. 5 Pretty in Black: The Goth Girl and the Whimsical Macabre
  16. 6 ‘Happy Nights Are Here Again’: Having a Laugh with Vampires and Other Monsters
  17. 7 ‘I’m the Shoreditch Vampire’: Making Over Goth Masculinities in Television Comedy
  18. 8 ‘Swishing about and spookiness’: Whitby and Gothic Literary Tourism from Bram Stoker’s Dracula to Paul Magrs’s Never the Bri
  19. Conclusion: Gothic Celebrations
  20. Works Cited
  21. Index