Gothic Modernisms

This is the first full length exploration of the relationship between Gothic fiction and Modernism in fiction and film. The Gothic's fascination with images of the fragmented self is echoed in the Modernist concern with the psyche and the paranoia of the everyday. The contributors explore how the Gothic influences a range of writers including James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, May Sinclair, Elizabeth Bowen and Djuna Barnes.

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DAVID GLOVER Senior Lecturer in English, University of Southampton AVRIL HORNER Professor of English and Director of the European Studies Research Institute, University of Salford KELLY HURLEY Associate Professor of English, University of Colorado, Boulder NIGEL MORRIS Director of Media Studies and Senior Lecturer in English, Trinity College, Carmarthen FRANCESCA ORESTANO Professor of English Literature and Comparative Literature, University of Milan DAVID PUNTER Professor of English, Bristol University DAVID SEED Reader, English Department, Liverpool University DEBORAH TYLER-BENNETT Poet and Author JUDITH WILT Professor of English, Boston College JULIAN WOLFREYS Associate Professor of English, University of Florida SUE ZLOSNIK Associate Dean of Arts, Liverpool Hope University College

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Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction: Gothic Modernisms: History, Culture and Aesthetics; A.Smith & J.Wallace Hungry Ghosts and Foreign Bodies; D.Punter 'The Spectrality Effect' in Early Modernism; D.Glover 'Physical Cases: Transformations of the Supernatural in Virginia Woolf and May Sinclair; D.Seed The Ghost and the Omnibus: the Gothic Virginia Woolf; J.Wilt Strolling in the Dark: Gothic Flânerie in Djuna Barnes's Nightwood ?; A.Horner & S.Zlosnik 'Thick Within Our Hair': Djuna Barnes's Gothic Lovers; D.Tyler-Bennett 'The Stern Task of Living': Dubliners , Clerks, Money and Modernism; J.Wallace The Modernist Abominations of William Hope Hodgson; K.Hurley Vampirism, Masculinity and Degeneracy: D.H. Lawrence's Modernist Gothic; A.Smith Arctic Masks in a Castle of Ice: Gothic Vorticism and Wyndham Lewis's Self Condemned ; F.Orestano Metropolis and the Modernist Gothic; N.Morris Hollywood Gothic/Gothic Hollywood: The Example of Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard ; J.Wolfreys Index