Gothic World
The Gothic World offers an extensive overview of the popular field of the Gothic, from the eighteenth century through to the present day. Encompassing the literary, it also extends critical debate in exciting new directions, including film, politics, fashion, architecture, fine art, music, technology and cyberculture.
Structured around the principles of time, space and practice, and including a detailed general introduction, the five sections of the volume consider:
- Gothic histories
- Gothic spaces
- Gothic readers and writers
- Gothic spectacle
- Contemporary impulses.
The Gothic World seeks to account for the Gothic as a multi-faceted, multi-dimensional force, as a style, an aesthetic experience and a mode of cultural expression that traverses genres, forms, media, disciplines and national boundaries: a "Gothic World," indeed.
Glennis Byron is Professor of English at the University of Stirling, Scotland. With Dale Townshend, she co-runs the MLitt in The Gothic Imagination. She was the principal investigator for the AHRC-funded Global Gothic network. Globalgothic is forthcoming from Manchester University Press in 2012.
Dale Townshend is Senior Lecturer in Gothic and Romantic Literature at the University of Stirling, Scotland, where he co-runs, with Glennis Byron, the MLitt in The Gothic Imagination.