A New Companion to the Gothic

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A New Companion to the Gothic
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A N E W C O M P A N I O N T O
THE GOTHIC
EDITED BY
DAVID PUNTER
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A new companion to the gothic / edited by David Punter.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4051-9806-6 (cloth)
1. Horror tales, English—History and criticism. 2. Gothic revival (Literature)—English-
speaking countries. 3. Psychoanalysis and literature–English-speaking countries. 4. Horror tales,
American—History and criticism. 5. Psychological fiction—History and criticism. 6. Ghost
stories—History and criticism. I. Punter, David.
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I would like to dedicate this volume to the memory of two colleagues who are
no longer with us: Julia Briggs, a colleague of supreme culture and grace;
and Allan Lloyd Smith, a fine scholar and a true friend
Contents
Notes on Contributors x
Acknowledgments xvii
Introduction: The Ghost of a History 1
David Punter
Part I. Gothic Backgrounds 11
1 In Gothic Darkly: Heterotopia, History, Culture 13
Fred Botting
2 The Goths in History and Pre-Gothic Gothic 25
Robin Sowerby
3 Gothic Shakespeare 38
Dale Townshend
4 European Gothic 64
Neil Cornwell
5 The Gothic Ballad 77
Douglass H. Thomson
Part II. The Original Gothic 91
6 Ann Radcliffe and Matthew Lewis 93
Robert Miles
7 Mary Shelley, Author of Frankenstein 110
Nora Crook
viii Contents
8 Walter Scott, James Hogg, and Scottish Gothic 123
Ian Duncan
9 Irish Gothic: C. R. Maturin and J. S. LeFanu 135
Victor Sage
10 The Political Culture of Gothic Drama 148
David Worrall
Part III. Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Transformations 161
11 Nineteenth-Century American Gothic 163
Allan Lloyd Smith
12 The Ghost Story 176
Julia Briggs
13 Gothic in the 1890s 186
Glennis Byron
14 Fictional Vampires in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 197
William Hughes
15 Horror Fiction: In Search of a Definition 211
Clive Bloom
16 Love Bites: Contemporary Women’s Vampire Fictions 224
Gina Wisker
17 Gothic Film 239
Heidi Kaye
18 Shape and Shadow: On Poetry and the Uncanny 252
David Punter
Part IV. Gothic Theory and Genre 265
19 Gothic Criticism 267
Chris Baldick and Robert Mighall
20 The Gothic Sublime 288
Vijay Mishra
21 Psychoanalysis and the Gothic 307
Michelle A. Massé
22 Comic Gothic 321
Avril Horner and Sue Zlosnik
Contents ix
23 Gothic and the Graphic Novel 335
Julia Round
24 Goth Culture 350
Catherine Spooner
Part V. The Globalization of Gothic 367
25 Global Gothic 369
Glennis Byron
26 Australian Gothic 379
Ken Gelder
27 New Zealand Gothic 393
Ian Conrich
28 Canadian Gothic 409
Cynthia Sugars
29 Asian Gothic 428
Katarzyna Ancuta
30 Japanese Gothic 442
Charles Shirō Inouye
Part VI. The Continuing Debate 455
31 Can You Forgive Her? The Gothic Heroine and Her Critics 457
Kate Ferguson Ellis
32 Picture This: Stephen King’s Queer Gothic 469
Steven Bruhm
33 Seeing Things: Gothic and the Madness of Interpretation 481
Scott Brewster
34 The Gothic Ghost of the Counterfeit and the Progress of Abjection 496
Jerrold E. Hogle
35 The Magical Realism of the Contemporary Gothic 510
Lucie Armitt
36 Welcome the Coming, Speed the Parting Guest:
Hospitality and the Gothic 523
Joanne Watkiss
Index 535
Notes on Contributors
Katarzyna Ancuta is a lecturer at Assumption University, Thailand. Her publica-
tions are concerned with interdisciplinary contexts of contemporary Gothic and
Horror, (South-)East Asian cinema, and supernatural anthropology. She is currently
working on a book on Asian Gothic, and a multimedia project on Bangkok Gothic.
She is also involved in a number of film projects in Southeast Asia, coordinating the
Asian Cultural Studies Association based in Bangkok, and editing the Asian Journal
of Literature, Culture and Society, published by Assumption University Press.
Lucie Armitt is Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Salford.
She is a specialist in the literary fantastic, the contemporary Gothic, and contemporary
women’s fiction. Her major publications include The Twentieth-Century Gothic (Cardiff:
University of Wales Press, 2011), Fantasy Fiction (New York: Continuum, 2005),
Contemporary Women’s Writing and the Fantastic (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2000), and
Theorising the Fantastic (London: Arnold, 1996).
Chris Baldick is Professor of English at Goldsmiths’ College, University of London.
He has edited The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales (1992) and, with Robert Morrison, Tales
of Terror from Blackwood’s Magazine (1995) and The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre
(1997). Among his other books are In Frankenstein’s Shadow (1987) and Criticism and
Literary Theory 1890 to the Present (1996).
Clive Bloom is Professor Emeritus of English and American Studies at Middlesex
University, UK. He currently teaches at both New York University and the University
of Notre Dame. He has written many books on popular culture, cultural history, and
literary criticism, regularly appears on radio and television and contributes to a
number of national newspapers.
Fred Botting teaches in the Department of English at Lancaster University. He has
written two books on Gothic texts, Making Monstrous (1991) and Gothic (1996), and
has recently published Sex, Machines and Navels (1999). He has also co-edited (with
Notes on Contributors xi
Scott Wilson) The Bataille Reader and The Bataille Critical Reader and co-written Holy
Shit: The Tarantinian Ethics (forthcoming).
Scott Brewster is Reader in English and Irish Literature and Director of English at
the University of Salford. He is author of Lyric (2009) and co-editor, with Michael
Parker, of Irish Literature since 1990: Diverse Voices (2009). Previous publications
include the co-edited Inhuman Reflections; Thinking the Limits of the Human (2000). He
has published widely on Irish writing, the Gothic, and psychoanalysis, and is currently
working on a book about Sigmund Freud and commemoration.
Julia Briggs was Professor of English Literature at De Montfort University, Leicester,
and an emeritus fellow of Hertford College, Oxford. She is the author of a history of
the ghost story, Night Visitors (1977), a study of Renaissance literature in its historical
context, This Stage-Play World (1983, 1997), and a biography of the children’s writer
E. Nesbit: A Woman of Passion (1987). She acted as general editor for the thirteen
volumes of Virginia Woolf reprinted in Penguin Classics.
Steven Bruhm is Robert and Ruth Lumsden Professor of English at the University
of Western Ontario, Canada. He is the author of Gothic Bodies: The Politics of Pain in
Romantic Fiction and Reflecting Narcissus: A Queer Aesthetic, along with numerous articles
on Gothic literature, film, and dance. He is currently trying to decide whether to
write a book on Gothic choreography or Gothic children.
Glennis Byron is Professor of English at the University of Stirling, Scotland and
works on both nineteenth-century and contemporary Gothic. Recent publications
include articles on Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Stephenie Meyer, and Justin Cronin and an
edited collection of essays on global Gothic, one of the products of an Arts and
Humanities Research Council-funded project. She is Director of the MLitt in The
Gothic Imagination at Stirling, and has written extensively on vampire fiction,
Dracula, and the fin-de-siècle.
Ian Conrich is a Fellow in the Department, Film, and Theatre at the University of
Essex. The author of New Zealand Film – A Guide (2008, in Polish), Studies in New
Zealand Cinema (2009), New Zealand Cinema (2011), and Culture and Customs of New
Zealand (forthcoming), he is an editor of a further eleven books, including New Zealand
– A Pastoral Paradise? (2000), New Zealand Filmmakers (2007), Contemporary New
Zealand Cinema (2008), The Cinema of New Zealand (in Polish, 2009), and Horror Zone:
The Cultural Experience of Contemporary Horror Cinema (2009).
Neil Cornwell is Professor Emeritus (of Russian and Comparative Literature), Uni-
versity of Bristol. His authored books include The Literary Fantastic (1990), James Joyce
and the Russians (1992), Vladimir Nabokov (1999), The Absurd in Literature (2006), and
three books featuring Vladimir Odoevsky – the latest being Odoevsky’s Four Pathways
into Modern Fiction (2010). Among his edited books are Reference Guide to Russian Lit-
erature (1998) and The Gothic-Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature (1999).