Table of Contents

Gothic Traditions.  Pre-Gothic.  Eighteenth Century Gothic.  Gothic and the Romantics.  Victorian Gothic.  Gothic and Modernism.  Contemporary Gothic.  Gothic Locations.  Gothic London.  American Gothic.  Scottish Gothic.  Irish Gothic.  Gothic and Empire.  Canadian Gothic.  Australian Gothic.  Gothic Concepts. The Uncanny.  Abject and Grotesque.  Trauma and Memory.  Gothic.  Masculinities.  Gothic Femininities.  Desire and Sexuality.  Masks, Veils and Disguises.  Gothic Culture.  Gothic Children.  Gothic Media.  Gothic and Film 1: Adaptations.  Gothic and Film 2: Horror.  Gothic and TV.  Gothic and the Graphic Novel.  Gothic Music and Subculture.  Gothic and New Technologies.

About the Author

Catherine Spooner is Senior lecturer in English at Lancaster University, UK. Her publications include Fashioning Gothic Bodies (MUP, 2004) and Contemporary Gothic (Reaktion 2006).


Emma McEvoy lectures at the University of Westminster, UK. She has published work on various Romantic and Gothic texts and contributed to the OUP edition of Matthew Lewis' The Monk (1995).