New Companion to The Gothic

David Punter is Professor of English at the University of Bristol. He has written extensively on Gothic, romantic, and modern literature, literary theory, and psychoanalysis, as well as producing four volumes of poetry. His recent publications include The Gothic (with Glennis Byron, Blackwell, 2004), Metaphor (2007), Modernity (2007), and Rapture: Literature, Addiction, Secrecy (2009).

From reviews of the previous edition:“It offers a range of strategies for understanding the genre, and is an excellent resource for students, teachers, and scholars of the Gothic.” Gothic Studies“[Its] obvious value ... is its wealth of critical approaches – from good, old-fashioned ‘history of ideas’ readings to the most sophisticated of recent theory.” Romanticism on the Net“The book does not offer a house view of what Gothic is, but instead faithfully reproduces the status of current debates on the relevant genres. Many essays provide useful summaries of criticism or of primary texts; others offer new critical insights.” Times Higher Education“The individual essays are narrow enough to describe discrete topics but useful to newcomer and scholar alike … Punter's volume is sure to be a standard reference for some time to come for undergraduates and scholars.” Choice“Anyone lucky enough to have this volume sitting on their shelves has instant access to the recent thinking of a long list of scholars who have led the way in Gothic studies. The book is a veritable Baedeker's guide that ranges from the historical Goths of the third century to Stephen King in the twentieth century; that explores dimensions of Gothic through painting and cinema, as well as written texts; that roams across Europe and America as well as the British Isles. Punter himself contributes a concise but stimulating introduction.” Studies in Hogg and His World

• Notes on Contributors xAcknowledgments xviiIntroduction: The Ghost of a History 1David PunterPart I. Gothic Backgrounds 111 In Gothic Darkly: Heterotopia, History, Culture 13Fred Botting2 The Goths in History and Pre-Gothic Gothic 25Robin Sowerby3 Gothic Shakespeare 38Dale Townshend4 European Gothic 64Neil Cornwell5 The Gothic Ballad 77Douglass H. ThomsonPart II. The Original Gothic 916 Ann Radcliffe and Matthew Lewis 93Robert Miles7 Mary Shelley, Author of Frankenstein 110Nora Crook8 Walter Scott, James Hogg, and Scottish Gothic 123Ian Duncan9 Irish Gothic: C. R. Maturin and J. S. LeFanu 135Victor Sage10 The Political Culture of Gothic Drama 148David WorrallPart III. Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Transformations 16111 Nineteenth-Century American Gothic 163Allan Lloyd Smith12 The Ghost Story 176Julia Briggs13 Gothic in the 1890s 186Glennis Byron14 Fictional Vampires in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 197William Hughes15 Horror Fiction: In Search of a Definition 211Clive Bloom16 Love Bites: Contemporary Women’s Vampire Fictions 224Gina Wisker17 Gothic Film 239Heidi Kaye18 Shape and Shadow: On Poetry and the Uncanny 252David PunterPart IV. Gothic Theory and Genre 26519 Gothic Criticism 267Chris Baldick and Robert Mighall20 The Gothic Sublime 288Vijay Mishra21 Psychoanalysis and the Gothic 307Michelle A. Massé22 Comic Gothic 321Avril Horner and Sue Zlosnik23 Gothic and the Graphic Novel 335Julia Round24 Goth Culture 350Catherine SpoonerPart V. The Globalization of Gothic 36725 Global Gothic 369Glennis Byron26 Australian Gothic 379Ken Gelder27 New Zealand Gothic 393Ian Conrich28 Canadian Gothic 409Cynthia Sugars29 Asian Gothic 428Katarzyna Ancuta30 Japanese Gothic 442Charles Shirō InouyePart VI. The Continuing Debate 45531 Can You Forgive Her? The Gothic Heroine and Her Critics 457Kate Ferguson Ellis32 Picture This: Stephen King’s Queer Gothic 469Steven Bruhm33 Seeing Things: Gothic and the Madness of Interpretation 481Scott Brewster34 The Gothic Ghost of the Counterfeit and the Progress of Abjection 496Jerrold E. Hogle35 The Magical Realism of the Contemporary Gothic 510Lucie Armitt36 Welcome the Coming, Speed the Parting Guest: Hospitality and the Gothic 523Joanne Watkiss Index 535