Gothic Modernisms

by A. Smith (Editor), J. Wallace (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349423651
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/2001
Edition description:	1st ed. 2001
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

Smith and Wallace (both lecturers in English, U. of Glamorgan) present 12 commissioned essays that explore the links and influences between Gothic texts and modernist books and movies. They argue that the two movements, despite their obvious differences, are fascinated with the potential erosion of moral value in everyday life. In the essays, Conrad's and Ford Madox Ford's are compared, the similarities of Virginia Woolf and May Sinclair are examined, the use of Gothic transformation in Djuna Barnes' is explored, and the Gothic elements in Fritz Lang's is discussed. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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