The Gothic in times of crisis reflects contemporary society, showing how the Gothic modes continually resets its own forms to encompass each new reality, each new apocalypse, each new plague or crisis. This collection expands oncurrent scholarship to show how the Gothic challenges our understanding of both older and recent crises and, in turn, disturbs all genre complacencies to expose and confront the problems and contradictions in what our world has been, has become, or is in danger of becoming. This collection explores Gothic’s current relevance to the contestations of ideas and the underlying and visible conflicts it dramatizes across a wide range of media. In various ways, it reveals what happens to Gothic modes now they confront the increasingly Gothic realities of our times, sometimesby recalling earlier crises and ideological contestations leading up to them. -- .
Preface
Introduction
Part 1 The Gothic and pandemics past and present
1 Plague apocalypse then and now: Gothic visions of the end times - Faye Ringel
2 ‘The End of the World is Nigh’: pandemic and apocalypse in the Gothic - David Punter
3 Pandemic paranoia: Gothic narratives of lockdown - Sue Zlosnik
Part 2 Past and present adaptations of deep cultural conflicts
4 Fluid memories of Horror: the presence of water in Lovecraft’s The Call of Cthulhu and Alan Parker's film Angel Heart - Tony Alcala Gonzalez
5 The Beguiled: scripts of crisis in a contentious southern - Marie Lienard-Yeterian
6 Gothic returns and Canadian residential schools: Armand Ruffo’s A Windigo Tale Then and Now - Cynthia Sugars
7 From medieval romance to Gothic film: The Green Knight - Jerrold Hogle
Part 3 Ghosts at the impasse: current aporias in the spiritual, the material & the maternal
8 Ghost stories after 1914- Anastasia Lipinskaya
9 Ghostly troubles in contemporary cinema - Gilles Menegaldo
10 Stable or unstable matter? 18th century Gothic objects and Gothic postmodernity - John Whatley
Part 4 Monstrosity and womanhood: disturbing the maternal
11 Monstrous mothers in 21st century female Gothic from 2013–2020 - Karen Budra
12 Sùrbiles (2017): women vampires in Sardinia - Alessandra Serra
13 Contagion and the maternal in apocalyptic Gothic from 2017–21 - Mariaconcetta Costantini
Part 5 Crisis in the Anthropocene: recent eco-Gothic
14 Ambivalent eco-Gothic: mushroom tales in times of crisis - Li-hsin Hsu
15 Contagion, ingestion, and sustainability in Margaret Atwood, 2006–16 - Gina Wisker
16 Ambivalent eco-Gothic in three 2020–21 films - Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet
17 Mati Diop’s Atlantique and the atmospherics of Gothic spectrality - Mark Deggan -- .
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