Graveyard Gothic

Eric Parisot is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Flinders UniversityDavid McAllister is Senior Lecturer in Victorian Literature at Birkbeck, University of LondonXavier Aldana Reyes is Reader in English Literature and Film at Manchester Metropolitan University

'This new text is an impressive and concise examination of the importance of the graveyard as both a setting and catalyst for plot development within Gothic literature... the text overall is an excellent one to consider for undergraduate literature courses. Graveyard Gothic will pique students’ interest and instill enjoyment of their assigned reading.' ChoiceReprinted with permission from Choice Reviews. All rights reserved. Copyright by the American Library Association‘Historically and culturally wide-ranging, Graveyard Gothic offers a scintillating scholarly unearthing of the multivalent site of the graveyard – a place of sentimental and morbid contemplation, commemoration, community celebration, portal between life and death, source of supernatural frisson, heterotopia, and necropolis. Exploring the multifarious intersections of the Gothic/horror plot and the graveyard plot, the essays in this groundbreaking collection are sure to lay the foundations for much future scholarship.’ Professor Carol Margaret Davison, editor of The Gothic and Death (2017) ‘Graveyard Gothic provides a definitive account of the role of the graveyard in the Gothic imagination. The graveyard’s place in poetry, fiction, TV, films, and video games is explored in detailed and persuasive depth. Insightful and scholarly, this volume makes a major contribution to the understanding of cultural history.’ Professor Andrew Smith, author of Gothic Death 1740-1914: A Literary History (2016)

• Introduction: Graveyard Gothic – Eric Parisot, David McAllister and Xavier Aldana Reyes1 The Gothic churchyard in graveyard poetry: cultural remains and literary beginnings ­– Eric Parisot2 Graveyard pleasures: visiting (and revisiting) the burial site in late eighteenth-century Gothic ­– Yael Shapira3 The last days of the urban burial ground: horror, reform and Gothic fiction – Roger Luckhurst4 De-Gothicising the Victorian Gothic graveyard – David McAllister5 Relics and ruins, photographs and fellowship’ – Corinna Wagner6 The colonial Australian Gothic and the grave – Ken Gelder7 Weirding the Gothic graveyard – James Machin8 Graveyards in Western Gothic cinema – Xavier Aldana Reyes9 The ventriloquised corpse and the silent dead: Gothic of the British First and Second World War – Sara Wasson 10 Home among the headstones: graveyards in western Gothic television – Stacey Abbott11 The graveyard in neo-Edwardian fiction: refashioning the Victorian death space – Emma Liggins12 Unstable coordinates: textures, tehkhana and the Gothic in the horror films of the Ramsay brothers – Vibhushan Subba 13 Conversations with spectres: Mexican graveyards and Gothic returns – Enrique Ajuria Ibarra14 Monsters of history: a tour of the cinematic Slavic cemetery – Agnieszka Jezyk and Lev Nikulin15 Indian burial grounds in American fiction and film – Kevin Corstorphine 16 Adolescent existence and resistance: graveyards as a Gothic chronotope in twenty-first century fiction for young people – Debra Dudek 17 The graveyard level: anachronism, Anglo-Japanese semiotics and the cruel nightmare of resurrection in early horror video games – James T. McCreaCoda.: the futures of the graveyard Gothic – Eric Parisot, David McAllister and Xavier Aldana ReyesIndex