The Gothic and the everyday: living Gothic

In: The Palgrave Gothic series

Abstract

Introduction: living Gothic / Lorna Piatti-Farnell and Maria Beville -- Uncanny histories. Trauma, Gothic, revolution / David Punter -- Uncanny communities: empire and its others / Kristy Butler -- Gothic memory and the contested past: framing terror / Maria Beville -- The abhuman city: Peter Ackroyd's Gothic historiography of London / Ashleigh Prosser -- Legends, folklore, and tradition. Spectral pumpkins: cultural icons and the Gothic everyday / Lorna Piatti-Farnell -- The doll's uncanny soul / Susan Yi Sencidiver -- Ghosting the nation: La llorona, popular culture, and the spectral anxiety of Mexican identity / Enrique Ajuria Ibarra -- A dark domesticity: echoes of folklore in Irish contemporary Gothic / Tracy Fahey -- Gothic "remains". Architecture and the romance of Gothic remains: John Carter and the gentleman's magazine, 1797-1817 / Dale Townshend -- Morbid dining: writing the haunted history of last meals / Donna Lee Brien -- Gothic remains in South Asian English fiction / Tabish Khair -- Haunting and the (im)possibility of Maori Gothic / Misha Avka