Gothic in Contemporary Literature and Popular Culture

Justin D Edwards is Professor of English at the University of Surrey. Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet is Professor of American Literature at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland.

• Selected Contents: Introduction: From Goth/ic to Pop Goth Justin D Edwards and Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet 1. Love Your Zombie: Horror, Ethics, Excess Fred Botting 2. Vampires, Mad Scientists and the Unquiet Dead: Gothic Ubiquity in Post 9/11 US Television Linnie Blake 3. Being Human?: Twenty-First Century Monsters Monica Germanà 4. Gothic, Grabbit and Run: Carlos Ruiz Zafón and the Gothic Marketplace Glennis Byron 5. Bella’s Promises: Adolescence and (Re)capitulation in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Series Rachael McLennan 6. ‘I’ll be whatever Gotham needs me to be’: Batman, the Gothic, and Popular Culture Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet 7. The Monstrous House of Gaga Karen Macfarlane 8. Spectral Liturgy: Transgression, Ritual and Music in Gothic Isabella van Elferen 9. Under their Own Steam: Magic, Science, and Steampunk Gail Ashurst and Anna Powell 10. "‘Boo!’ to taboo": Circus and Fairground Gothic at British Festivals Emma McEvoy 11. ‘Forget Nu Rave, We’re Into Nu Grave!’: Styling Gothic in the Twenty-First Century Catherine Spooner