Carol Margaret Davison is Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Windsor

‘The Gothic and death is an interesting and varied collection that explores many compelling cultural themes through a range of seemingly disparate texts. In doing so, the work achieves a rare unity for an edited collection – attempting perhaps the widest scope it could have, most students or scholars of the Gothic will find something of interest here. The topics of individual essays may not lend themselves immediately to the scholarship of others, but the ideas that run through the collection as a whole will likely speak far more broadly. The highest recommendation for The Gothic and death is that it lends itself to reading as a unified whole, and not merely as a collection of individual essays.’

• Introduction - The corpse in the closet: the Gothic, death, and modernity - Carol Margaret DavisonPart I: Gothic graveyards and afterlives1. Past, present, and future death in the graveyard - Serena Trowbridge2. On the very Verge of legitimate Invention': Charles Bonnet and Blake's illustrations to The Grave (1808)' - Sibylle Erle3. Entranced by death: Horace Smith's Mesmerism - Bruce WysePart II: Gothic revolutions and undead histories4. 'This dreadful machine': the spectacle of death and the aesthetics of crowd control - Emma Galbally and Conrad Brunström5. Undying histories: Washington Irving's Gothic afterlives - Yael Maurer6. Deadly interrogations: cycles of death and transcendence in Byron's Gothic - Adam WhitePart III: Gothic apocalypses: dead selves/dead civilizations7. The annihilation of self and species: The ecoGothic sensibilities of Mary Shelley and Nathaniel Hawthorne - Jennifer Schell8. Death cults in Gothic 'Lost World' fiction - John Cameron Hartley9. Dead again: zombies and the spectre of cultural decline - Matthew PangbornPart IV: Global Gothic dead10. A double dose of death in Iginio Ugo Tarchetti's 'I fatali' - Christina Petraglia11. Through the opaque veil: the Gothic and death in Russian realism - Katherine Bowers12. Afterdeath and the Bollywood Gothic noir - Vijay MishraPart V: Twenty-first century gothic and death13. Dead and ghostly children in contemporary literature for young people - Michelle J. Smith14. Modernity's fatal addictions: technological necromancy and E. Elias Merhige's Shadow of the Vampire - Carol Margaret Davison15. 'I'm not in that thing you know ... I'm remote. I'm in the cloud': networked spectrality in Charlie Brooker's 'Be Right Back' - Neal KirkIndex

Carol Margaret Davison is Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Windsor

‘The Gothic and death is an interesting and varied collection that explores many compelling cultural themes through a range of seemingly disparate texts. In doing so, the work achieves a rare unity for an edited collection – attempting perhaps the widest scope it could have, most students or scholars of the Gothic will find something of interest here. The topics of individual essays may not lend themselves immediately to the scholarship of others, but the ideas that run through the collection as a whole will likely speak far more broadly. The highest recommendation for The Gothic and death is that it lends itself to reading as a unified whole, and not merely as a collection of individual essays.’

• Introduction - The corpse in the closet: the Gothic, death, and modernity - Carol Margaret DavisonPart I: Gothic graveyards and afterlives1. Past, present, and future death in the graveyard - Serena Trowbridge2. On the very Verge of legitimate Invention': Charles Bonnet and Blake's illustrations to The Grave (1808)' - Sibylle Erle3. Entranced by death: Horace Smith's Mesmerism - Bruce WysePart II: Gothic revolutions and undead histories4. 'This dreadful machine': the spectacle of death and the aesthetics of crowd control - Emma Galbally and Conrad Brunström5. Undying histories: Washington Irving's Gothic afterlives - Yael Maurer6. Deadly interrogations: cycles of death and transcendence in Byron's Gothic - Adam WhitePart III: Gothic apocalypses: dead selves/dead civilizations7. The annihilation of self and species: The ecoGothic sensibilities of Mary Shelley and Nathaniel Hawthorne - Jennifer Schell8. Death cults in Gothic 'Lost World' fiction - John Cameron Hartley9. Dead again: zombies and the spectre of cultural decline - Matthew PangbornPart IV: Global Gothic dead10. A double dose of death in Iginio Ugo Tarchetti's 'I fatali' - Christina Petraglia11. Through the opaque veil: the Gothic and death in Russian realism - Katherine Bowers12. Afterdeath and the Bollywood Gothic noir - Vijay MishraPart V: Twenty-first century gothic and death13. Dead and ghostly children in contemporary literature for young people - Michelle J. Smith14. Modernity's fatal addictions: technological necromancy and E. Elias Merhige's Shadow of the Vampire - Carol Margaret Davison15. 'I'm not in that thing you know ... I'm remote. I'm in the cloud': networked spectrality in Charlie Brooker's 'Be Right Back' - Neal KirkIndex

Carol Margaret Davison is Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Windsor

‘The Gothic and death is an interesting and varied collection that explores many compelling cultural themes through a range of seemingly disparate texts. In doing so, the work achieves a rare unity for an edited collection – attempting perhaps the widest scope it could have, most students or scholars of the Gothic will find something of interest here. The topics of individual essays may not lend themselves immediately to the scholarship of others, but the ideas that run through the collection as a whole will likely speak far more broadly. The highest recommendation for The Gothic and death is that it lends itself to reading as a unified whole, and not merely as a collection of individual essays.’

• Introduction - The corpse in the closet: the Gothic, death, and modernity - Carol Margaret DavisonPart I: Gothic graveyards and afterlives1. Past, present, and future death in the graveyard - Serena Trowbridge2. On the very Verge of legitimate Invention': Charles Bonnet and Blake's illustrations to The Grave (1808)' - Sibylle Erle3. Entranced by death: Horace Smith's Mesmerism - Bruce WysePart II: Gothic revolutions and undead histories4. 'This dreadful machine': the spectacle of death and the aesthetics of crowd control - Emma Galbally and Conrad Brunström5. Undying histories: Washington Irving's Gothic afterlives - Yael Maurer6. Deadly interrogations: cycles of death and transcendence in Byron's Gothic - Adam WhitePart III: Gothic apocalypses: dead selves/dead civilizations7. The annihilation of self and species: The ecoGothic sensibilities of Mary Shelley and Nathaniel Hawthorne - Jennifer Schell8. Death cults in Gothic 'Lost World' fiction - John Cameron Hartley9. Dead again: zombies and the spectre of cultural decline - Matthew PangbornPart IV: Global Gothic dead10. A double dose of death in Iginio Ugo Tarchetti's 'I fatali' - Christina Petraglia11. Through the opaque veil: the Gothic and death in Russian realism - Katherine Bowers12. Afterdeath and the Bollywood Gothic noir - Vijay MishraPart V: Twenty-first century gothic and death13. Dead and ghostly children in contemporary literature for young people - Michelle J. Smith14. Modernity's fatal addictions: technological necromancy and E. Elias Merhige's Shadow of the Vampire - Carol Margaret Davison15. 'I'm not in that thing you know ... I'm remote. I'm in the cloud': networked spectrality in Charlie Brooker's 'Be Right Back' - Neal KirkIndex