The Gothic World

1. The politics of Gothic historiography, 1660–1800
2. Gothic antiquarianism in the eighteenth century
3. Gothic and the New American Republic, 1770–1800
4. Gothic and the Celtic fringe, 1750–1850
5. British Gothic nationhood, 1760–1830
6. Gothic colonies, 1850–1920
7. History, trauma and the Gothic in contemporary western fictions
8. Gothic and the architectural imagination, 1740–1840
9. Gothic geography, 1760–1830
10. Gothic and the Victorian home
11. American Gothic and the environment, 1800–present
12. Gothic cities and suburbs, 1880–present
13. Gothic in cyberspace
14. Gothic and the publishing world, 1780–1820
15. Gothic and the history of reading, 1764–1830
16. Gothic adaptation, 1764–1830
17. Gothic romance, 1760–1830
18. Gothic poetry, 1700–1900
19. Gothic translation: France, 1760–1830
20. Gothic translation: Germany, 1760–1830
21. Gothic and the child reader, 1764–1850
22. Gothic and the child reader, 1850–present
23. Gothic sensations, 1850–1880
24. Young adults and the contemporary Gothic
25. The earliest parodies of Gothic literature
26. Figuring the author in modern Gothic writing
27. Gothic and the question of theory, 1900–present
28. Gothic and eighteenth- century visual art
29. Gothic visuality in the nineteenth century
30. Gothic theater, 1765–present
31. Ghosts, monsters and spirits, 1840–1900
32. Gothic horror film from The Haunted Castle (1896) to Psycho (1960)
33. Gothic horror film, 1960–present
34. Southeast Asian Gothic cinema
35. Defining a Gothic aesthetic in modern and contemporary visual art
36. Sonic Gothic
37. Gothic lifestyle
38. Gothic and survival horror videogames
39. Rewriting the canon in contemporary Gothic
40. Gothic tourism
41. Gothic on the small screen
42. Post-millennial monsters: monstrosity- no-more

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’.