The Edinburgh Companion to Gothic and the Arts

Media type: E-Book

Title: The Edinburgh Companion to Gothic and the Arts

Contains: 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

Contributor: Punter, David [Author]; Ancuta, Katarzyna [Contributor]; Beville, Maria [Contributor]; Blake, Linnie [Contributor]; Bloom, Clive [Contributor]; Bork, Robert [Contributor]; Bruhm, Steven [Contributor]; Duggett, Tom [Contributor]; Elferen, Isabella Van [Contributor]; Elliott, Kamilla [Contributor]; Fall, Wendy [Contributor]; González, Antonio Alcalá [Contributor]; Haefele-Thomas, Ardel [Contributor]; Hogle, Jerrold E. [Contributor]; Horner, Avril [Contributor]; Ilott, Sarah [Contributor]; Jackson, Anna [Contributor]; Jones, David Annwn [Contributor]; Kirk, Neal [Contributor]; Leonard, Kendra Preston [Contributor]; Lindfield, Peter N. [Contributor]; Lindsay, Stuart [Contributor]; Miles, Robert [Contributor]; Parisot, Eric [Contributor]; Parrino, Maria [Contributor]; Potter, Franz [Contributor]; Punter, David [Contributor]; Reyes, Xavier Aldana [Contributor]; Round, Julia [Contributor]; Stobbart, Dawn [Contributor]; Thomson, Doug [Contributor]; Townshend, Dale [Contributor]; Wasson, Sara [Contributor]; Williams, Anne [Contributor]; Wisker, Gina [Contributor]; Wright, Angela [Contributor]

Published: Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, [2022]

Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (520 p.); 55 B/W illustrations 18 colour illustrations

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9781474432375

ISBN: 9781474432375

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Keywords: Literary Studies ; LITERARY CRITICISM / General

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Footnote: In English

Description: Provides new definitions of the Gothic in a variety of artistic contextsExplores a range of Gothic from architecture through literature to music and the technological artsProvides an opportunity to hear new thinking from established scholars as well as showcasing work by new scholarsHighlights new definitions of the Gothic from a wide variety of perspectivesThe Gothic in all its artistic forms and ramifications is traced from the medieval to the twenty-first century. From architecture, painting and sculpture through music, ballet, opera and dance to installation art and the graphic novel, each of the 33 chapters reflects on and weighs in on the ways in which the Gothic is taken up in the art forms and modes under examination. An Introduction discusses Gothic as a changing cultural form across the centuries with deep psychological roots. This is followed by sections on: architectural arts; the visual arts; music and the performance arts; the literary arts; and media and cultural arts

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