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The Edinburgh companion to gothic and the arts

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The Gothic is a contested and complicated phenomenon, extending over many centuries and across all the arts. In The Edinburgh Companion to the Gothic and the Arts, the range of essays run from medieval architecture and design to contemporary gaming and internet fiction; from classical painting to the modern novel; from ballet and dance to contemporary Goth music. The contributors include many of the best-known critics of the Gothic (e.g., Hogle, Punter, Spooner, Bruhm) as well as newer names such as Kirk and Round. The editor has put all these contributors in touch with each other in the preparation of their essays in order to ensure the maximum benefit to the reader by producing a well-integrated book which will prove much more than a collection of disparate essays, but rather a distinctive contribution to a field.

Title The Edinburgh companion to gothic and the arts / edited by David Punter.
Publisher Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press
Creation Date [2019]
Notes Includes bibliographical references and index.
Content Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I: Architectural Arts -- 1. Gothic and Architecture: Morris, Ruskin, Carlyle and the Gothic Legacies of the Lake Poets -- 2. Gothic and the Built Environment: Literary Representations of the Architectural Uncanny and Urban Sublime -- 3. Gothic and Design: The Geometrical Roots of Gothic Aesthetics in the Cologne Cathedral Choir -- 4. Gothic and Sculpture: From Medieval Piety to Modern Horrors and Terrors -- 5. Gothic and Installation Art: Spectral Materialities, Monstrous Ephemera -- Part II: The Visual Arts -- 6. Gothic and Earlier Painting: Nightmares and Premature Burials in Fuseli and Wiertz -- 7. Gothic, Caricature, Cartoon: Insatiable Nightmares -- 8. Gothic and Portraiture: Resemblance and Rupture -- 9. Gothic and Surrealism: Subculture, Counterculture and Cultural Assimilation -- 10. Gothic and Modern Art: The Experience of Ivan Albright -- 11. Gothic and Photography: The Darkest Art -- Part III: Music and the Performance Arts -- 12. Gothic and Music: Scoring ‘Silent’ Spectres -- 13. Gothic and Opera: Overwhelming Passions and Irrational Dreams -- 14. Gothic, Ballet, Dance: The Aesthetics and Kinaesthetics of Death -- 15. Gothic and Contemporary Music: Dark Sound, Dark Mood, Dark Aesthetics -- Part IV: The Literary Arts -- 16. Gothic and Graveyard Poetry: Imagining the Dead (of Night) -- 17. Gothic Chapbooks and Ballads: Making a Long Story Short -- 18. Gothic and Nineteenth-Century Poetry: Thresholds of Influence, Possibilities and Desire -- 19. Gothic and Modern Poetry: The Poetics of Transgression -- 20. Gothic and the Eighteenth-Century Novel: At Home in the English Style -- 21. Gothic and the Nineteenth-Century Novel: The Art of Abjection -- 22. Gothic and Recent Fiction: Fears of the Past and of the Future -- 23. Gothic and the Short Story: Revolutions in Form and Genre -- 24. Gothic, Melodrama, Victorian Theatre: Gothic Drama to 1890 -- 25. Gothic and Modern Theatre: Staging Modern Cultural Trauma -- 26. Gothic and Children’s Literature: Wolves in Walls and Clocks in Crocodiles -- 27. Gothic and Young Adult Literature: Werewolves, Vampires, Monsters, Rebellion, Broken Hearts and True Romance -- Part V: Media and Cultural Arts -- 28. Gothic and Cinema: The Development of an Aesthetic Filmic Mode -- 29. Gothic and Television: The Monster in the Living Room -- 30. Gothic and Comics: From The Haunt of Fear to a Haunted Medium -- 31. Gothic and the Graphic Novel: From the Future Shocks of Judge Dredd to the Aftershocks of DC Vertigo -- 32. Gothic and Video Games: Playing with Fear in the Darkness -- 33. Gothic and Internet Fiction: Digital Affordances and New Media Fears -- Index
Series Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities
Extent 1 online resource (xx, 492 pages), 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations.
Language English
Copyright Date ©2019
National Library system number 997010707201605171
MARC RECORDS
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