David Punter, having worked at universities in England, Scotland, Hong Kong and China, is now Professor of English at the University of Bristol. He has published over twenty monographs and edited collections in the Gothic, romantic writing, modern and contemporary writing, and literary theory. His most recent publications include Writing the Passions (2000); Postcolonial Imaginings: Fictions of a New World Order (2000); Metaphor (2007); Modernity (2007); Rapture: Literature, Addiction, Secrecy (2009); and A New Companion to the Gothic (ed., 2012). He has also published five volumes of poetry.

• List of IllustrationsList of ContributorsIntroductionPart I: Architectural Arts1. Gothic and Architecture: Morris, Ruskin, Carlyle and the Gothic legacies of the Lake Poets, Tom Duggett2. Gothic and the Built Environment: Literary Representations of the Architectural Uncanny and Urban Sublime, Sara Wasson3. Gothic and Design: The Geometrical Roots of Gothic Aesthetics in the Cologne Cathedral Choir, Robert Bork4. Gothic and Sculpture: From Medieval Piety to Modern Horrors and Terrors, Peter N. Lindfield and Dale Townshend5. Gothic and Installation Art: Spectral Materialities, Monstrous Ephemera, Katarzyna Ancuta　Part II: The Visual Arts6. Gothic and Earlier Painting: Nightmares and Premature Burials in Fuseli and Wiertz, Maria Parrino7. Gothic, Caricature, Cartoon: Insatiable Nightmares, Franz Potter8. Gothic and Portraiture: Resemblance and Rupture, Kamilla Elliott9. Gothic and Surrealism: Subculture, Counterculture and Cultural Assimilation, Avril Horner10. Gothic and Modern Art: The Experience of Ivan Albright, Antonio Alcalá González11. Gothic and Photography: The Darkest Art, David Annwn JonesPart III: Music and the Performance Arts12. Gothic and Music: Scoring ‘Silent’ Spectres, Kendra Preston Leonard13. Gothic and Opera: Overwhelming Passions and Irrational Dreams, Anne Williams14. Gothic, Ballet, Dance: The Aesthetics and Kinaesthetics of Death, Steven Bruhm15. Gothic and Contemporary Music: Dark Sound, Dark Mood, Dark Aesthetics, Isabella van ElferenPart IV: The Literary Arts16. Gothic and Graveyard Poetry: Imagining the Dead (of Night), Eric Parisot17. Gothic Chapbooks and Ballads: Making a Long Story Short, Doug Thomson and Wendy Fall18. Gothic and Nineteenth-Century Poetry: Thresholds of Influence, Possibilities and Desire, Angela Wright19. Gothic and Modern Poetry: The Poetics of Transgression, Maria Beville20. Gothic and the Eighteenth-Century Novel: At Home in the English Style, Robert Miles21. Gothic and the Nineteenth-Century Novel: The Art of Abjection, Jerrold E. Hogle22. Gothic and Recent Fiction: Fears of the Past and of the Future, David Punter23. Gothic and the Short Story: Revolutions in Form and Genre, Sarah Ilott24. Gothic, Melodrama, Victorian Theatre: Gothic Drama to 1890, Clive Bloom25. Gothic and Modern Theatre: Staging Modern Cultural Trauma, Ardel Haefele-Thomas26. Gothic and Children’s Literature: Wolves in Walls and Clocks in Crocodiles, Anna Jackson27. Gothic and Young Adult Literature: Werewolves, Vampires, Monsters, Rebellion, Broken Hearts and True Romance, Gina WiskerPart V: Media and Cultural Arts28. Gothic and Cinema: The Development of an Aesthetic Filmic Mode, Xavier Aldana Reyes29. Gothic and Television: The Monster in the Living Room, Linnie Blake30. Gothic and Comics: From The Haunt of Fear to a Haunted Medium, Julia Round31. Gothic and the Graphic Novel: From the Future Shocks of Judge Dredd to the Aftershocks of DC Vertigo, Stuart Lindsay32. Gothic and Videogames: Playing with Fear in the Darkness, Dawn Stobbart33. Gothic and Internet Fiction: Digital Affordances and New Media Fears, Neal KirkIndex

By juxtaposing such a rich array of interpretations of the genre, written by scholars rep-resenting multiple fields, this anthology maps out the varying terrains of the gothic and shows them to be at once monstrous and full of wonder.