The Edinburgh Companion to Gothic and the Arts

by David Punter (Editor)

Overview

Provides new definitions of the Gothic in a variety of artistic contexts
Explores a range of Gothic from architecture through literature to music and the technological artsProvides an opportunity to hear new thinking from established scholars as well as showcasing work by new scholarsHighlights new definitions of the Gothic from a wide variety of perspectives

The Gothic in all its artistic forms and ramifications is traced from the medieval to the twenty-first century. From architecture, painting and sculpture through music, ballet, opera and dance to installation art and the graphic novel, each of the 33 chapters reflects on and weighs in on the ways in which the Gothic is taken up in the art forms and modes under examination. An Introduction discusses Gothic as a changing cultural form across the centuries with deep psychological roots. This is followed by sections on: architectural arts; the visual arts; music and the performance arts; the literary arts; and media and cultural arts.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781474432351
Publisher:	Edinburgh University Press
Publication date:	09/04/2019
Series:	Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities
Pages:	520
Product dimensions:	6.77(w) x 9.61(h) x (d)

About the Author

David Punter, having worked at universities in England, Scotland, Hong Kong and China, is now Professor of English at the University of Bristol. He has published over twenty monographs and edited collections in the Gothic, romantic writing, modern and contemporary writing, and literary theory. His most recent publications include Writing the Passions (2000); Postcolonial Imaginings: Fictions of a New World Order (2000); Metaphor (2007); Modernity (2007); Rapture: Literature, Addiction, Secrecy (2009); and A New Companion to the Gothic (ed., 2012). He has also published five volumes of poetry.

Table of Contents

List of IllustrationsList of ContributorsIntroduction

Part I: Architectural Arts

1. Gothic and Architecture: Morris, Ruskin, Carlyle and the Gothic legacies of the Lake Poets, Tom Duggett2. Gothic and the Built Environment: Literary Representations of the Architectural Uncanny and Urban Sublime, Sara Wasson3. Gothic and Design: The Geometrical Roots of Gothic Aesthetics in the Cologne Cathedral Choir, Robert Bork4. Gothic and Sculpture: From Medieval Piety to Modern Horrors and Terrors, Peter N. Lindfield and Dale Townshend5. Gothic and Installation Art: Spectral Materialities, Monstrous Ephemera, Katarzyna Ancuta　

Part II: The Visual Arts

6. Gothic and Earlier Painting: Nightmares and Premature Burials in Fuseli and Wiertz, Maria Parrino7. Gothic, Caricature, Cartoon: Insatiable Nightmares, Franz Potter8. Gothic and Portraiture: Resemblance and Rupture, Kamilla Elliott9. Gothic and Surrealism: Subculture, Counterculture and Cultural Assimilation, Avril Horner10. Gothic and Modern Art: The Experience of Ivan Albright, Antonio Alcalá González11. Gothic and Photography: The Darkest Art, David Annwn Jones

Part III: Music and the Performance Arts

12. Gothic and Music: Scoring ‘Silent’ Spectres, Kendra Preston Leonard13. Gothic and Opera: Overwhelming Passions and Irrational Dreams, Anne Williams14. Gothic, Ballet, Dance: The Aesthetics and Kinaesthetics of Death, Steven Bruhm15. Gothic and Contemporary Music: Dark Sound, Dark Mood, Dark Aesthetics, Isabella van Elferen

Part IV: The Literary Arts

16. Gothic and Graveyard Poetry: Imagining the Dead (of Night), Eric Parisot17. Gothic Chapbooks and Ballads: Making a Long Story Short, Doug Thomson and Wendy Fall18. Gothic and Nineteenth-Century Poetry: Thresholds of Influence, Possibilities and Desire, Angela Wright19. Gothic and Modern Poetry: The Poetics of Transgression, Maria Beville20. Gothic and the Eighteenth-Century Novel: At Home in the English Style, Robert Miles21. Gothic and the Nineteenth-Century Novel: The Art of Abjection, Jerrold E. Hogle22. Gothic and Recent Fiction: Fears of the Past and of the Future, David Punter23. Gothic and the Short Story: Revolutions in Form and Genre, Sarah Ilott24. Gothic, Melodrama, Victorian Theatre: Gothic Drama to 1890, Clive Bloom25. Gothic and Modern Theatre: Staging Modern Cultural Trauma, Ardel Haefele-Thomas26. Gothic and Children’s Literature: Wolves in Walls and Clocks in Crocodiles, Anna Jackson27. Gothic and Young Adult Literature: Werewolves, Vampires, Monsters, Rebellion, Broken Hearts and True Romance, Gina Wisker

Part V: Media and Cultural Arts

28. Gothic and Cinema: The Development of an Aesthetic Filmic Mode, Xavier Aldana Reyes29. Gothic and Television: The Monster in the Living Room, Linnie Blake30. Gothic and Comics: From The Haunt of Fear to a Haunted Medium, Julia Round31. Gothic and the Graphic Novel: From the Future Shocks of Judge Dredd to the Aftershocks of DC Vertigo, Stuart Lindsay32. Gothic and Videogames: Playing with Fear in the Darkness, Dawn Stobbart33. Gothic and Internet Fiction: Digital Affordances and New Media Fears, Neal Kirk

Index

What People are Saying About This

University of Windsor Carol Margaret Davison

Interrogating the Gothic as an aesthetic category, evolving and elastic yet in possession of a complex history, these thirty-three carefully arranged chapters eruditely chart its prolific manifestations across a wide range of artistic forms and media, provoking us to reconsider what we think we know about the Gothic.

Editorial Reviews

Interrogating the Gothic as an aesthetic category, evolving and elastic yet in possession of a complex history, these thirty-three carefully arranged chapters eruditely chart its prolific manifestations across a wide range of artistic forms and media, provoking us to reconsider what we think we know about the Gothic.

University of Windsor Carol Margaret Davison

By juxtaposing such a rich array of interpretations of the genre, written by scholars rep-resenting multiple fields, this anthology maps out the varying terrains of the gothic and shows them to be at once monstrous and full of wonder.

Victorian Studies - Aviva Briefel