From Horace Walpole to Angela Carter and the X-Files, new and
familiar texts are reassessed, and common readings of Gothic themes
and critical approaches to the genre are interrogated. The
popularity of Gothic fictions, themes and films suggests that the
genre is the norm as much as the dark underside of contemporary
cultural production. Having endured for over two hundred years and
settled onto numerous respectable courses of study, the meaning and
value of the Gothic seems due for reappraisal. The essays in this
volume, written by critics whose work over the last twenty years
has considerably advanced the understanding of the Gothic genre,
reexamine its literary, historical and cultural significance: from
Horace Walpole to Angela Carter and the X-Files, new and familiar
texts are reassessed; common readings of Gothic themes and critical
approaches to the genreare interrogated: Gothic finds itself
integrally involved in the production of a modern sense of the
nation; it continues to haunt legal discourses; it underpins social
mythologies and ideologies; informs histories of sexuality and
identity; offers curious substance to notions of community and
culture, and raises questions of ethics and postmodernism.
Professor FRED BOTTING teaches in the Department of English at
Keele University. Contributors: DAVID PUNTER, ELISABETH BRONFEN,
E.J. CLERY, ROBERT MILES, JEAN-JACQUES LECERCLE, LESLIE J. MORAN,
HELEN STODDART, FRED BOTTING, JERROLD E. HOGLE.
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