Thoroughly expanded and updated, this widely acclaimed Companion provides a series of stimulating insights into Gothic writing, its history and genealogy. The New Companion offers comprehensive coverage of the criticism of Gothic writing, and of the various theoretical approaches that it has inspired. Thoroughly expanded and updated, this widely acclaimed Companion provides a series of stimulating insights into Gothic writing, its history and genealogy. The New Companion offers comprehensive coverage of the criticism of Gothic writing, and of the various theoretical approaches that it has inspired. Notes on Contributors x Acknowledgments xvii Introduction: The Ghost of a History 1David Punter Part I. Gothic Backgrounds 11 1 In Gothic Darkly: Heterotopia, History, Culture 13Fred Botting 2 The Goths in History and Pre-Gothic Gothic 25Robin Sowerby 3 Gothic Shakespeare 38Dale Townshend 4 European Gothic 64Neil Cornwell 5 The Gothic Ballad 77Douglass H. Thomson Part II. The Original Gothic 91 6 Ann Radcliffe and Matthew Lewis 93Robert Miles 7 Mary Shelley, Author of Frankenstein 110Nora Crook 8 Walter Scott, James Hogg, and Scottish Gothic 123Ian Duncan 9 Irish Gothic: C. R. Maturin and J. S. LeFanu 135Victor Sage 10 The Political Culture of Gothic Drama 148David Worrall Part III. Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Transformations 161 11 Nineteenth-Century American Gothic 163Allan Lloyd Smith 12 The Ghost Story 176Julia Briggs 13 Gothic in the 1890s 186Glennis Byron 14 Fictional Vampires in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 197William Hughes 15 Horror Fiction: In Search of a Definition 211Clive Bloom 16 Love Bites: Contemporary Women s Vampire Fictions 224Gina Wisker 17 Gothic Film 239Heidi Kaye 18 Shape and Shadow: On Poetry and the Uncanny 252David Punter Part IV. Gothic Theory and Genre 265 19 Gothic Criticism 267Chris Baldick and Robert Mighall 20 The Gothic Sublime 288Vijay Mishra 21 Psychoanalysis and the Gothic 307Michelle A. Massé 22 Comic Gothic 321Avril Horner and Sue Zlosnik 23 Gothic and the Graphic Novel 335Julia Round 24 Goth Culture 350Catherine Spooner Part V. The Globalization of Gothic 367 25 Global Gothic 369Glennis Byron 26 Australian Gothic 379Ken Gelder 27 New Zealand Gothic 393Ian Conrich 28 Canadian Gothic 409Cynthia Sugars 29 Asian Gothic 428Katarzyna Ancuta 30 Japanese Gothic 442Charles Shirô Inouye Part VI. The Continuing Debate 455 31 Can You Forgive Her? The Gothic Heroine and Her Critics 457Kate Ferguson Ellis 32 Picture This: Stephen King s Queer Gothic 469Steven Bruhm 33 Seeing Things: Gothic and the Madness of Interpretation 481Scott Brewster 34 The Gothic Ghost of the Counterfeit and the Progress of Abjection 496Jerrold E. Hogle 35 The Magical Realism of the Contemporary Gothic 510Lucie Armitt 36 Welcome the Coming, Speed the Parting Guest: Hospitality and the Gothic 523Joanne Watkiss Index 535