Gothic Topographies: Language, Nation Building and Race

Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction; Part I European Gothicisms In, Between and Through Languages: Jan Potocki in the intertextual tradition of the roman anglais (the Gothic novel), Hendrik van Gorp; The Gothic avant-garde: a confusion of tongues in Gustav Meyrink and Hugo Ball, P.M. Mehtonen; Things as they’re told: the power of narrative in William Godwin’s Caleb Williams, Bridget M. Marshall; A stranger in a silent city: Gothic motifs embracing queer textuality in Alan Hollinghurst’s The Folding Star, Pia Livia Hekanaho. Part II ’Race’, Society and Power in a Global Perspective: ’To thrill the land with horror’: antislavery discourse and the Gothic imagination, Teresa A, Goddu; Spectres of apartheid: Marlene van Niekerk’s Triomf, Jack W. Shear; Out of the shadows: aboriginal Gothic, ’race’, identity and voice in Tracey Moffat’s beDevil, Maureen Clark; The international vampire boom and post-Soviet Gothic aesthetics, Dina Khapaeva. Part III The Challenge of the North: Vast Landscapes and Inward Horrors: The devious landscape in contemporary Scandinavian horror, Yvonne Leffler; The aesthetics of surface: the Danish Gothic 1820-2000, Kirstine Kastbjerg; From Italy to the Finnish woods: the rise of Gothic fiction in Finland, Kati Launis; Gothic liminality in A.J. Annila’s film Sauna, Pasi Nyyssönen; ’Murderous pleasures’: the (female) Gothic and the death drive in selected short stories by Margaret Atwood, Isabel Huggan and Alice Munro, Tomasz Sikora; The ’New World’ Gothic monster: spatio-temporal ambiguities, male bonding and Canadianness in John Richardson’s Wacousta, Matti Savolainen and Christos Angelis; Index.