The Edinburgh companion to gothic and the arts / edited by David Punter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Punter, David, Author.

Contributor:

Punter, David, editor.

Series:

Edinburgh companions to literature and the humanities.

Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arts, Gothic.

Art, Gothic.

Gothic fiction (Literary genre).

Gothic revival (Architecture).

Gothic revival (Literature).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 492 pages), 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2019]

Summary:

The Gothic is a contested and complicated phenomenon, extending over many centuries and across all the arts. In The Edinburgh Companion to the Gothic and the Arts, the range of essays run from medieval architecture and design to contemporary gaming and internet fiction; from classical painting to the modern novel; from ballet and dance to contemporary Goth music. The contributors include many of the best-known critics of the Gothic (e.g., Hogle, Punter, Spooner, Bruhm) as well as newer names such as Kirk and Round. The editor has put all these contributors in touch with each other in the preparation of their essays in order to ensure the maximum benefit to the reader by producing a well-integrated book which will prove much more than a collection of disparate essays, but rather a distinctive contribution to a field.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Part I: Architectural Arts

1. Gothic and Architecture: Morris, Ruskin, Carlyle and the Gothic Legacies of the Lake Poets

2. Gothic and the Built Environment: Literary Representations of the Architectural Uncanny and Urban Sublime

3. Gothic and Design: The Geometrical Roots of Gothic Aesthetics in the Cologne Cathedral Choir

4. Gothic and Sculpture: From Medieval Piety to Modern Horrors and Terrors

5. Gothic and Installation Art: Spectral Materialities, Monstrous Ephemera

Part II: The Visual Arts

6. Gothic and Earlier Painting: Nightmares and Premature Burials in Fuseli and Wiertz

7. Gothic, Caricature, Cartoon: Insatiable Nightmares

8. Gothic and Portraiture: Resemblance and Rupture

9. Gothic and Surrealism: Subculture, Counterculture and Cultural Assimilation

10. Gothic and Modern Art: The Experience of Ivan Albright

11. Gothic and Photography: The Darkest Art

Part III: Music and the Performance Arts

12. Gothic and Music: Scoring ‘Silent’ Spectres

13. Gothic and Opera: Overwhelming Passions and Irrational Dreams

14. Gothic, Ballet, Dance: The Aesthetics and Kinaesthetics of Death

15. Gothic and Contemporary Music: Dark Sound, Dark Mood, Dark Aesthetics

Part IV: The Literary Arts

16. Gothic and Graveyard Poetry: Imagining the Dead (of Night)

17. Gothic Chapbooks and Ballads: Making a Long Story Short

18. Gothic and Nineteenth-Century Poetry: Thresholds of Influence, Possibilities and Desire

19. Gothic and Modern Poetry: The Poetics of Transgression

20. Gothic and the Eighteenth-Century Novel: At Home in the English Style

21. Gothic and the Nineteenth-Century Novel: The Art of Abjection

22. Gothic and Recent Fiction: Fears of the Past and of the Future

23. Gothic and the Short Story: Revolutions in Form and Genre

24. Gothic, Melodrama, Victorian Theatre: Gothic Drama to 1890

25. Gothic and Modern Theatre: Staging Modern Cultural Trauma

26. Gothic and Children’s Literature: Wolves in Walls and Clocks in Crocodiles

27. Gothic and Young Adult Literature: Werewolves, Vampires, Monsters, Rebellion, Broken Hearts and True Romance

Part V: Media and Cultural Arts

28. Gothic and Cinema: The Development of an Aesthetic Filmic Mode

29. Gothic and Television: The Monster in the Living Room

30. Gothic and Comics: From The Haunt of Fear to a Haunted Medium

31. Gothic and the Graphic Novel: From the Future Shocks of Judge Dredd to the Aftershocks of DC Vertigo

32. Gothic and Video Games: Playing with Fear in the Darkness

33. Gothic and Internet Fiction: Digital Affordances and New Media Fears

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4744-3237-9

OCLC:

1312726286