Twenty-First-Century Gothic

An Edinburgh Companion

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Edited by Maisha Wester and Xavier Aldana Reyes

Type

Studies

Subject

Genre > Horror

Keywords

horror, gothic, 21st century

Publishing date

2019

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press

Collection

Edinburgh Companions to the Gothic

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Hardcover • 336 pages
6 x 9 ¼ inches (15.5 x 23.5 cm)

ISBN

978-1-4744-4092-9

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Book Presentation:
A transnational and transmedia companion to the post-millennial Gothic
• Covers key areas and themes of the post-millennial Gothic as well as developments in the field and revisions of the Gothic tradition
• Constitutes the first thematic compendium to this area with a transmedia (literature, film and television) and transnational approach
• Covers a plurality of texts, from novels such as Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight (2005), Helen Oyeyemi’s White Is for Witching (2009), Justin Cronin’s The Passage (2010) and M.R. Carey’s The Girl with All the Gifts (2014), to films such as Kairo (2001), Juan of the Dead (2012) and The Darkside (2013), to series such as Dante’s Cove (2005–7), Hemlock Grove (2013–15), Penny Dreadful (2014–16), Black Mirror (2011–) and even the Slenderman mythos

This resource in contemporary Gothic literature, film and television takes a thematic approach, providing insights into the many forms the Gothic has taken in the twenty-first century. The 20 newly commissioned chapters cover emerging and expanding research areas, such as digital technologies, queer identity, the New Weird and postfeminism. They also discuss contemporary Gothic monsters – including zombies, vampires and werewolves – and highlight Ethnogothic forms such as Asian and Black Diasporic Gothic.

About the authors:
Maisha Wester is Associate Professor in the Department of American Studies and Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies at Indiana University. She is the author of African American Gothic: Screams from Shadowed Places (Palgrave, 2012) and is currently writing a monograph on Voodoo Queens and Zombie Lords: Haiti in American Horror Culture (forthcoming, University of Virginia Press).
Xavier Aldana Reyes is Reader in English Literature and Film at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is the author of Spanish Gothic: National Identity, Collaboration and Cultural Adaptation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), Horror Film and Affect: Towards a Corporeal Model of Viewership (Routledge, 2016) and Body Gothic: Corporeal Transgression in Contemporary Literature and Horror Film (University of Wales Press, 2014). He is also the editor of Horror: A Literary History (British Library Publications, 2016) and Digital Horror: Haunted Technologies, Network Panic and the Found Footage Phenomenon, co-edited with Dr Linnie Blake (I.B. Tauris, 2015).

Press Reviews:
Sweepingly comprehensive and well-organised into twenty definitive essays, this collection is the book for orienting students, teachers and lay readers to the multifarious forms the Gothic has taken since 2000 – while revealing the earlier roots and cultural conflicts behind each – across a wide range of media and all over the world.– Jerrold E. Hogle, University of Arizona

This is an excellent resource for scholars and students of contemporary Gothic literature and culture. With chapters by world-leading experts on cutting-edge topics such as digital Gothic, posthuman Gothic, steampunk, the New Weird and many more, this book will be a go-to volume for many years to come.– Justin D. Edwards, University of Stirling

See the publisher website: Edinburgh University Press