Cover

The Gothic and death

Contents

List of figures

List of contributors

Series editor’s preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction – the corpse in the closet: the Gothic, death, and modernity: Carol Margaret Davison

Part I: Gothic graveyards and afterlives

1 Past, present, and future in the Gothic graveyard: Serena Trowbridge

2 ‘On the very Verge of legitimate Invention’: Charles Bonnet and William Blake’s illustrations to Robert Blair’s The Grave (1808): Sibylle Erle

3 Entranced by death: Horace Smith’s Mesmerism: Bruce Wyse

Part II: Gothic revolutions and undead histories

4 ‘This dreadful machine’: the spectacle of death and the aesthetics of crowd control: Emma Galbally and Conrad Brunström

5 Undying histories: Washington Irving’s Gothic afterlives: Yael Maurer

6 Deadly interrogations: cycles of death and transcendence in Byron’s Gothic: Adam White

Part III: Gothic apocalypses: dead selves/dead civilizations

7 The annihilation of self and species: the ecoGothic sensibilities of Mary Shelley and Nathaniel Hawthorne: Jennifer Schell

8 Death cults in Gothic ‘Lost World’ fiction: John Cameron Hartley

9 Dead again: zombies and the spectre of cultural decline: Matthew Pangborn

Part IV: Global Gothic dead

10 A double dose of death in Iginio Ugo Tarchetti’s ‘I fatali’: Christina Petraglia

11 Through the opaque veil: the Gothic and death in Russian realism: Katherine Bowers

12 Afterdeath and the Bollywood Gothic noir: Vijay Mishra

Part V: Twenty-first-century Gothic and death

13 Dead and ghostly children in contemporary literature for young people: Michelle J. Smith

14 Modernity’s fatal addictions: technological necromancy and E. Elias Merhige’s Shadow of the Vampire: Carol Margaret Davison

15 ‘I’m not in that thing you know . . . I’m remote. I’m in the cloud’: networked spectrality in Charlie Brooker’s ‘Be Right Back’: Neal Kirk

Index