The Gothic and the everyday : living Gothic / edited by Lorna Piatti-Farnell, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand and Maria Beville, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Ireland.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Piatti-Farnell, Lorna, 1980- editor.

Beville, Maria, editor.

Series:

Palgrave gothic series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gothic fiction (Literary genre)--History and criticism.

Gothic fiction (Literary genre).

Gothic revival (Literature)--History and criticism.

Gothic revival (Literature).

Goth culture (Subculture).

Physical Description:

xi, 260 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Summary:

Numerous dimensions of the Gothic are still under-explored. With this in mind, The Gothic and the Everyday aims to draw attention to one facet of the Gothic in particular: the Gothic in relation to lived experience. While the Gothic has been embodied in various cultural trends and behaviours, the broader idea of 'living Gothic', as a term encompassing histories, practices, and legacies, has yet to find a coherent definition and place. This book, then, serves to regenerate interest in the Gothic within the experiential contexts of history, folklore, and tradition, and the idea of Gothic remains in contemporary life. By using the term 'living', the book recalls a collection of experiences that constructs the everyday in its social, cultural, and imaginary incarnations. In this sense, 'living' also takes on multiple and multi-faceted connotations that resonate feelings of both finality and immortality, bygone experience, and future fantasy. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: living Gothic / Lorna Piatti-Farnell and Maria Beville

Uncanny histories. Trauma, Gothic, revolution / David Punter

Uncanny communities: empire and its others / Kristy Butler

Gothic memory and the contested past: framing terror / Maria Beville

The abhuman city: Peter Ackroyd's Gothic historiography of London / Ashleigh Prosser

Legends, folklore, and tradition. Spectral pumpkins: cultural icons and the Gothic everyday / Lorna Piatti-Farnell

The doll's uncanny soul / Susan Yi Sencidiver

Ghosting the nation: La llorona, popular culture, and the spectral anxiety of Mexican identity / Enrique Ajuria Ibarra

A dark domesticity: echoes of folklore in Irish contemporary Gothic / Tracy Fahey

Gothic "remains". Architecture and the romance of Gothic remains: John Carter and the gentleman's magazine, 1797-1817 / Dale Townshend

Morbid dining: writing the haunted history of last meals / Donna Lee Brien

Gothic remains in South Asian English fiction / Tabish Khair

Haunting and the (im)possibility of Maori Gothic / Misha Avka.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137406637

1137406631

OCLC:

881656006