Gothic Britain : dark places in the provinces and margins of the British Isles / edited by William Hughes and Ruth Heholt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Heholt, Ruth, editor.

Hughes, William, 1964- editor.

Clyde de Loache Ryals Endowed Acquisition Fund.

Series:

Gothic literary studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English.

Great Britain--In literature.

Great Britain.

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

National characteristics, British, in literature.

Regionalism in literature.

Literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Essays.

Physical Description:

xiv, 253 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2018.

Summary:

"Gothic Britain is the first collection of essays to consider how the Gothic responds to, and is informed by, the British regional experience. Acknowledging how the so-called United Kingdom has historically been divided on nationalistic lines, the twelve original essays in this volume interrogate the interplay of ideas and generic innovations generated in the spaces between the nominal kingdom and its component nations and, innovatively, within those national spaces. Concentrating upon fictions depicting England, Scotland and Wales specifically, Gothic Britain comprehends the generic possibilities of the urban and the rural, of the historical and the contemporary, of the metropolis and the rural settlement - as well as exploring uniquely the fluid space that is the act of travel itself. Reading the textuality of some two hundred years of national and regional identity, Gothic Britain interrogates how the genre has depicted and questioned the natural and built environments of the island of Britain"--Publisher's website.

Contents:

Introduction: The uncanny space of regionality : Gothic beyond the metropolis / William Hughes

"Dark, and cold, and rugged is the north" : regionalism, folklore and Elizabeth Gaskell's "Northern Gothic" / Catherine Spooner

The Gothic child and the West Yorkshire Moors : the deconstruction of space in Jeremy Dyson's The haunted book / Chloé Germaine Buckley

"Spook business" : Hall Caine and the moment of Manx Gothic / Richard Storer

"All those ancient stories that had their dark souls located in woods" : Rural Gothic, Scottish Folklore and Postmodern Conundrums in James Robertson's The Testament of Gideon Mack / Gioia Angelletti

Entering the darkness : Robert Aickman and the Regions / Timothy Jones

University Gothic, c. 1880-1910 / Minna Vuohelainen

Vampiristic museums and library Gothic / Holly-Gale Millette

Lifting the veil : allegory, ambivalence and the Scottish Gothic in Walter Scott's Union Fiction / Jamil Mustafa

Cosmopolis fever : regionalism and disease ecology in Mary Shelley's The last man / Ben Richardson

The Hammer House of Cornish horror : the inversion of imperial Gothic in The plague of the zombies and The reptile / Ruth Heholt

Gothic immigration : Kentish Gothic and the borders of Britishness / Sarah Ilott.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-247) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Clyde de Loache Ryals Endowed Acquisition Fund.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781786832337

178683233X

OCLC:

1004762355

Publisher Number:

99982232716