Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1 Gothic and Romantic: An Historical Overview -- Part I Gothic Modes and Forms -- 2 Graveyard Writing and the Rise of the Gothic -- 3 Gothic Romance -- 4 The Gothic Stage: Visions of Instability, Performances of Anxiety --...
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1 Gothic and Romantic: An Historical Overview -- Part I Gothic Modes and Forms -- 2 Graveyard Writing and the Rise of the Gothic -- 3 Gothic Romance -- 4 The Gothic Stage: Visions of Instability, Performances of Anxiety -- 5 Gothic Poetry and First-Generation Romanticism -- 6 Gothic and Second-Generation Romanticism: Lord Byron, P. B. Shelley, John Polidori and Mary Shelley -- 7 Political Gothic Fiction -- 8 Shorter Gothic Fictions: Ballads and Chapbooks, Tales and Fragments -- 9 Oriental Gothic -- 10 Gothic Parody -- Part II National and International Borders -- 11 Gothic Borders: Scotland, Ireland and Wales -- 12 Gothic Travels -- 13 The Romantic and the Gothic in Europe: The Elementary Spirits in France and Germany as a Vehicle for the Transmission and Development of the Fantastique, 1772-1835 -- 14 American Gothic Passages -- PART III Reading the Romantic Gothic -- 15 Gothic and the Language of Terror -- 16 Gothic Science -- 17 Gender and Sexuality in Gothic Romanticism -- 18 Gothic Forms of Time: Architecture, Romanticism, Medievalism -- 19 Gothic Theology -- Notes on Contributors -- Index Provides a detailed, rigorous account of the rise and development of the Gothic aesthetic in British, American and European culture between 1740 and 1840Self-consciously breaching the critical divide between what literary history has subsequently differentiated as the 'Gothic' and the 'Romantic', this collection of 17 newly commissioned chapters seeks to draw attention to that prominent strain in late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century British, American and European literature in which the distinction between the popular, low-cultural reaches of the Gothic and the 'High' Romantic aesthetics of more canonical figures is all but erased.Key FeaturesSubjects early Gothic writing to sustained critical attention and re-examinationSituates British Gothic writing in relation to contemporary developments of the mode in America and Continental Europe Seeks to advance current scholarly debates particularly with respect to the ongoing interest in the relationship between Romanticism and the Gothic
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Borderlands of Identity and the Aesthetics of Disjuncture: An Introduction to Scottish Gothic -- 2. 'The Celtic Century' and the Genesis of Scottish Gothic -- 3. The Politics and Poetics of the...
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Borderlands of Identity and the Aesthetics of Disjuncture: An Introduction to Scottish Gothic -- 2. 'The Celtic Century' and the Genesis of Scottish Gothic -- 3. The Politics and Poetics of the 'Scottish Gothic' from Ossian to Otranto and Beyond -- 4. Robert Burns and the Scottish Bawdy Politic -- 5. Scottish Gothic Drama -- 6. Scottish Gothic Poetry -- 7. Calvinist and Covenanter Gothic -- 8. Gothic Scott -- 9. Gothic Hogg -- 10. 'The Singular Wrought Out into the Strange and Mystical': Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine and the Transformation of Terror -- 11. Gothic Stevenson -- 12. J. M. Barrie's Gothic: Ghosts, Fairy Tales and Lost Children -- 13. The 'nouveau frisson': Muriel Spark's Gothic Fiction -- 14. Scottish Gothic and the Moving Image: A Tale of Two Traditions -- 15. New Frankensteins; or, the Body Politic -- 16. Queer Scottish Gothic -- 17. Authorship, 'Ghost-filled' Islands and the Haunting Feminine: Contemporary Scottish Female Gothic -- Notes on Contributors -- Index Interrogates the Gothic in relation to Scotland, 'Scottishness', British Gothic, cultural and national boundaries, and issues of identityWritten from various critical standpoints by internationally renowned scholars, Scottish Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion interrogates the ways in which the concepts of the Gothic and Scotland have intersected and been manipulated from the mid-eighteenth century to the present day. This interdisciplinary collection is the first ever published study to investigate the multifarious strands of Gothic in Scottish fiction, poetry, theatre and film. Its contributors - all specialists in their fields - combine an attention to socio-historical and cultural contexts with a rigorous close reading of works, both classic and lesser known, produced between the eighteenth and twenty-first centuries.Key Features Offers the first critical collection devoted to the topic of the Scottish Gothic as it is manifested across centuriesRe-ignites ongoing debates about the relationship between Scotland and the Gothic, Scotland and Romanticism, Scotland and the Enlightenment, and the role of the Gothic in relation to national identity issuesConsiders issues of religion, politics, history, and culture/cultural identity in Scottish Gothic texts across centuries against the backdrop of the Act of Union and the process of devolution/independencePresents fresh readings of established, overlooked, and recent Scottish Gothic works across a variety of cultural and literary forms
