Description
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.
The first volume to provide an interdisciplinary, comprehensive history of twentieth and twenty-first century Gothic culture.
About the Author
Catherine Spooner is Professor of Literature and Culture at Lancaster University. She has previously published six books; the most recent, Post-Millennial Gothic: Comedy, Romance and the Rise of Happy Gothic (2017), was awarded the Allan Lloyd Smith Memorial Prize. She was co-president of the International Gothic Association 2013-17. Dale Townshend is Professor of Gothic Literature in the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies, Manchester Metropolitan University. He has published widely on Gothic writing of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and his most recent monograph is Gothic Antiquity: History, Romance, and the Architectural Imagination, 1760-1840 (2019).
Reviews
'... the sheer scale and interdisciplinary nature of [this] project multiplies the possible applications of the Gothic mode.' Joellen Mary Delucia, Eighteenth-Century Studies
Book Information
ISBN 9781108460194
Author Catherine Spooner
Format Paperback
Page Count 554
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
The first volume to provide an interdisciplinary, comprehensive history of twentieth and twenty-first century Gothic culture.
About the Author
Catherine Spooner is Professor of Literature and Culture at Lancaster University. She has previously published six books; the most recent, Post-Millennial Gothic: Comedy, Romance and the Rise of Happy Gothic (2017), was awarded the Allan Lloyd Smith Memorial Prize. She was co-president of the International Gothic Association 2013-17. Dale Townshend is Professor of Gothic Literature in the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies, Manchester Metropolitan University. He has published widely on Gothic writing of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and his most recent monograph is Gothic Antiquity: History, Romance, and the Architectural Imagination, 1760-1840 (2019).
Reviews
'... the sheer scale and interdisciplinary nature of [this] project multiplies the possible applications of the Gothic mode.' Joellen Mary Delucia, Eighteenth-Century Studies
Book Information
ISBN 9781108460194
Author Catherine Spooner
Format Paperback
Page Count 554
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
