The Gothic and death (eBook)

Carol Margaret Davison is Professor and Head of Department of the English Language, Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Windsor

Introduction - The corpse in the closet: the Gothic, death, and modernity - Carol Margaret Davison
Part I: Gothic graveyards and afterlives
1. Past, present, and future death in the graveyard - Serena Trowbridge
2. On the very Verge of legitimate Invention': Charles Bonnet and Blake's illustrations to The Grave (1808)' - Sibylle Erle
3. Entranced by death: Horace Smith's Mesmerism - Bruce Wyse
Part II: Gothic revolutions and undead histories
4. 'This dreadful machine': the spectacle of death and the aesthetics of crowd control - Emma Galbally and Conrad Brunström
5. Undying histories: Washington Irving's Gothic afterlives - Yael Maurer
6. Deadly interrogations: cycles of death and transcendence in Byron's Gothic - Adam White
Part III: Gothic apocalypses: dead selves/dead civilizations
7. The annihilation of self and species: The ecoGothic sensibilities of Mary Shelley and Nathaniel Hawthorne - Jennifer Schell
8. Death cults in Gothic 'Lost World' fiction - John Cameron Hartley
9. Dead again: zombies and the spectre of cultural decline - Matthew Pangborn
Part IV: Global Gothic dead
10. A double dose of death in Iginio Ugo Tarchetti's 'I fatali' - Christina Petraglia
11. Through the opaque veil: the Gothic and death in Russian realism - Katherine Bowers
12. Afterdeath and the Bollywood Gothic noir - Vijay Mishra
Part V: Twenty-first century gothic and death
13. Dead and ghostly children in contemporary literature for young people - Michelle J. Smith
14. Modernity's fatal addictions: technological necromancy and E. Elias Merhige's Shadow of the Vampire - Carol Margaret Davison
15. 'I'm not in that thing you know ... I'm remote. I'm in the cloud': networked spectrality in Charlie Brooker's 'Be Right Back' - Neal Kirk
Index