This new collection of essays by major scholars in the field looks at the ways in which cross-fertilization has taken place in Gothic writing from France, Germany, Britain and America over the last 200 years, and argues that Gothic writing reflects international exchanges in theme and form.
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Introduction; A.Horner& S.Zlosnik PART ONE: THE PARIS NEXUS Hugo's Notre
Dame, Leroux's Fantōme de l'Opéra and the Changing Functions of the Gothic;
J.E.Hogle Edgar Allen Poe in Paris: The Flāneur, the Détournement and the
Gothic Spaces of the Nineteenth-Century City; L.Blake Blood in Paris:
Transformations of Revolutionary Gothic in Henry James and Elizabeth Bowen;
R.Ingelbien PART TWO: CHANNEL CROSSINGS The Cult of Rousseau in Women's
Gothic Writing in the 1790s; A.Wright Huysmans, Machen and the Gothic
Grotesque, Or: The Way Up is the Way Down; A.Milbank Gothic Permutations from
the 1790s to the 1970s: Re-thinking the Marquis de Sade's Legacy; M.Vara
Dracula's Daughters: Angela Carter and Pierrette Fleutiaux's Vampiric
Exchanges; R.Munford PART THREE: TRANSATLANTIC VOYAGES Beast's Triumph over
Beauty in Gothic Film; K.J.Gentile 'Who is the third who walks always beside
you?': Eliot, Stoker and Stetson in The Waste Land; W.Hughes Calvinist
Gothic: The Case of Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland, or the Transformation
and James Hogg's The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner;
C.M.Davison Colonial Ghosts: Mimicking Dickens in America; A.Smith PART
THREE: CODA: OTHER DIRECTIONS Translating Technologies: Dickens, Kafka and
the Gothic; B.Murnane A Voyage through the Phantom Museum; D.Punter Index
LINNIE BLAKE is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK CAROL MARGARET DAVISON is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Windsor, Canada KATHY JUSTICE GENTILE is Director of the Institute for Women's and Gender Studies and teaches courses in Gothic fiction at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, USA JERROLD E. HOGLE is Professor of English, University Distinguished Professor, and Vice Provost for Instruction at the University of Arizona, USA WILLIAM HUGHES is Professor of Gothic Studies at Bath Spa University, UK RAPHAEL INGELBIEN is a Lecturer in Literary Studies at the University of Leuven, Belgium ALISON MILBANK lectures in Literature and Theology at the University of Nottingham, UK REBECCA MUNFORD is a Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Cardiff, UK BARRY MURNANE is an independent scholar DAVID PUNTER is Professor of English and Research Dean of Arts at the University of Bristol, UK ANDREW SMITH is Professor of English Studies at the University of Glamorgan, UK MARIA VARA is a doctoral candidate in the School of English, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece, where she teaches courses in writing and fiction ANGELA WRIGHT lectures in Romantic and Gothic Literature at the University of Sheffield, UK
