Contents

pp v-vi

Acknowledgements

pp vii-viii

Introduction: Going to Extremes: The Gothic in the Twentieth Century

pp 1-12

Part I - Gothic Evolutions

pp 13-14

1 - The Edwardian Supernatural

pp 15-32

2 - Weird Fiction in the Twentieth Century

pp 33-48

3 - Gothic Modernisms

pp 49-63

4 - Gothic Criticism in the Twentieth Century: Who is This Who is Coming?

pp 64-80

Part II - The Gothic and Technology/Transmedia Considerations

pp 81-82

5 - The Birth of an Evil Thought: The Gothic in Silent-Era Cinema

pp 83-98

6 - Grand-Guignol as Twentieth-Century Gothic Drama

pp 99-113

7 - Mid-Century Gothic Cinema (1931–79): From Monster Business to Exploitation Horror

pp 114-128

8 - The Unheimlich State: Surveillance and the Digital Nation

pp 129-143

9 - Gothic Horror Films at the ‘Fin-de-Millennium’: From Nightmare Videos to Filtered Realities (1980–2000)

pp 144-162

Part III - Key Themes and Topics in Twentieth-Century Gothic

pp 163-164

10 - Twentieth-Century War Gothic

pp 165-179

11 - Russian Twentieth-Century Gothic: The Irrepressible Undead

pp 180-195

12 - The Gothic 1950s

pp 196-212

13 - Masks of Sanity: Psychopathy and the Twentieth-Century Gothic

pp 213-227

14 - Troubling Legacies: African American Women’s Gothic from Zora Neale Hurston to Tananarive Due

pp 228-242

15 - Medical Humanities and the Twentieth-Century Gothic

pp 243-258

16 - Queer Gothic Literature and Culture

pp 259-272

17 - ‘Nightmares of the Normative’: African American Gothic and the Rejection of the American Ideal

pp 273-289

18 - Big Bad Wolves and Angry Sharks: The Ecogothic and a Century of Environmental Change

pp 290-304

Notes on Contributors

pp 305-309

Index

pp 310-324