Gothic in Contemporary Literature and Popular Culture

Justin D. Edwards is Professor of English at the University of Surrey, UK.Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet is Professor of American Literature at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.

• Selected Contents: Introduction: From Goth/ic to Pop Goth Justin D Edwards and Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet 1. Love Your Zombie: Horror, Ethics, Excess Fred Botting 2. Vampires, Mad Scientists and the Unquiet Dead: Gothic Ubiquity in Post 9/11 US Television Linnie Blake 3. Being Human?: Twenty-First Century Monsters Monica Germanà 4. Gothic, Grabbit and Run: Carlos Ruiz Zafón and the Gothic Marketplace Glennis Byron 5. Bella’s Promises: Adolescence and (Re)capitulation in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Series Rachael McLennan 6. ‘I’ll be whatever Gotham needs me to be’: Batman, the Gothic, and Popular Culture Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet 7. The Monstrous House of Gaga Karen Macfarlane 8. Spectral Liturgy: Transgression, Ritual and Music in Gothic Isabella van Elferen 9. Under their Own Steam: Magic, Science, and Steampunk Gail Ashurst and Anna Powell 10. "‘Boo!’ to taboo": Circus and Fairground Gothic at British Festivals Emma McEvoy 11. ‘Forget Nu Rave, We’re Into Nu Grave!’: Styling Gothic in the Twenty-First Century Catherine Spooner