The Edinburgh Companion to Gothic and the Arts

David Punter

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2019

The Edinburgh Companion to Gothic and the Arts

David Punter

In the series Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474432375

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Contents

About this book

Provides new definitions of the Gothic in a variety of artistic contexts

Explores a range of Gothic from architecture through literature to music and the technological arts
Provides an opportunity to hear new thinking from established scholars as well as showcasing work by new scholars
Highlights new definitions of the Gothic from a wide variety of perspectives

The Gothic in all its artistic forms and ramifications is traced from the medieval to the twenty-first century. From architecture, painting and sculpture through music, ballet, opera and dance to installation art and the graphic novel, each of the 33 chapters reflects on and weighs in on the ways in which the Gothic is taken up in the art forms and modes under examination. An Introduction discusses Gothic as a changing cultural form across the centuries with deep psychological roots. This is followed by sections on: architectural arts; the visual arts; music and the performance arts; the literary arts; and media and cultural arts.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Notes on Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Introduction David Punter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I: Architectural Arts
1. Gothic and Architecture: Morris, Ruskin, Carlyle and the Gothic Legacies of the Lake Poets Tom Duggett Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
2. Gothic and the Built Environment: Literary Representations of the Architectural Uncanny and Urban Sublime Sara Wasson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	36
3. Gothic and Design: The Geometrical Roots of Gothic Aesthetics in the Cologne Cathedral Choir Robert Bork Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	52
4. Gothic and Sculpture: From Medieval Piety to Modern Horrors and Terrors Peter N. Lindfield and Dale Townshend Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
5. Gothic and Installation Art: Spectral Materialities, Monstrous Ephemera Katarzyna Ancuta Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
Part II: The Visual Arts
6. Gothic and Earlier Painting: Nightmares and Premature Burials in Fuseli and Wiertz Maria Parrino Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
7. Gothic, Caricature, Cartoon: Insatiable Nightmares Franz Potter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	122
8. Gothic and Portraiture: Resemblance and Rupture Kamilla Elliott Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
9. Gothic and Surrealism: Subculture, Counterculture and Cultural Assimilation Avril Horner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	148
10. Gothic and Modern Art: The Experience of Ivan Albright Antonio Alcalá González Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
11. Gothic and Photography: The Darkest Art David Annwn Jones Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
Part III: Music and the Performance Arts
12. Gothic and Music: Scoring ‘Silent’ Spectres Kendra Preston Leonard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
13. Gothic and Opera: Overwhelming Passions and Irrational Dreams Anne Williams Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
14. Gothic, Ballet, Dance: The Aesthetics and Kinaesthetics of Death Steven Bruhm Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	214
15. Gothic and Contemporary Music: Dark Sound, Dark Mood, Dark Aesthetics Isabella Van Elferen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
Part IV: The Literary Arts
16. Gothic and Graveyard Poetry: Imagining the Dead (of Night) Eric Parisot Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
17. Gothic Chapbooks and Ballads: Making a Long Story Short Doug Thomson and Wendy Fall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	259
18. Gothic and Nineteenth-Century Poetry: Thresholds of Influence, Possibilities and Desire Angela Wright Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271
19. Gothic and Modern Poetry: The Poetics of Transgression Maria Beville Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	286
20. Gothic and the Eighteenth-Century Novel: At Home in the English Style Robert Miles Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	297
21. Gothic and the Nineteenth-Century Novel: The Art of Abjection Jerrold E. Hogle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	310
22. Gothic and Recent Fiction: Fears of the Past and of the Future David Punter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	321
23. Gothic and the Short Story: Revolutions in Form and Genre Sarah Ilott Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	332
24. Gothic, Melodrama, Victorian Theatre: Gothic Drama to 1890 Clive Bloom Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	346
25. Gothic and Modern Theatre: Staging Modern Cultural Trauma Ardel Haefele-Thomas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	358
26. Gothic and Children’s Literature: Wolves in Walls and Clocks in Crocodiles Anna Jackson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	365
27. Gothic and Young Adult Literature: Werewolves, Vampires, Monsters, Rebellion, Broken Hearts and True Romance Gina Wisker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	378
Part V: Media and Cultural Arts
28. Gothic and Cinema: The Development of an Aesthetic Filmic Mode Xavier Aldana Reyes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	395
29. Gothic and Television: The Monster in the Living Room Linnie Blake Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	406
30. Gothic and Comics: From The Haunt of Fear to a Haunted Medium Julia Round Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	418
31. Gothic and the Graphic Novel: From the Future Shocks of Judge Dredd to the Aftershocks of DC Vertigo Stuart Lindsay Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	434
32. Gothic and Video Games: Playing with Fear in the Darkness Dawn Stobbart Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	449
33. Gothic and Internet Fiction: Digital Affordances and New Media Fears Neal Kirk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	460
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	472

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 520
Illustrations
- Other: 55 B/W illustrations 18 colour illustrations
Keywords: Literary Studies

eBook

Published: April 5, 2022
ISBN: 9781474432375