ABSTRACT

The Gothic World offers an overview of this popular field whilst also extending critical debate in exciting new directions such as film, politics, fashion, architecture, fine art and cyberculture. Structured around the principles of time, space and practice, and including a detailed general introduction, the five sections look at:

  • Gothic Histories
  • Gothic Spaces
  • Gothic Readers and Writers
  • Gothic Spectacle
  • Contemporary Impulses.

The Gothic World seeks to account for the Gothic as a multi-faceted, multi-dimensional force, as a style, an aesthetic experience and a mode of cultural expression that traverses genres, forms, media, disciplines and national boundaries and creates, indeed, its own ‘World’.

part II|73 pages

Gothic Spaces

part III|164 pages

Gothic Readers and Writers

chapter 17|11 pages

Gothic Romance, 1760–1830

chapter 18|11 pages

Gothic Poetry, 1700–1900

chapter 23|10 pages

Gothic Sensations, 1850–1880

part V|83 pages

Contemporary Impulses

chapter 36|12 pages

Sonic Gothic

chapter 37|13 pages

Gothic Lifestyle

chapter 40|11 pages

Gothic Tourism

chapter 41|11 pages

Gothic on the Small Screen

chapter 42|12 pages

Post-Millennial Monsters

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