Gothic and modernism
Subtitle: essaying dark literary modernity
By: edited by John Paul Riquelme
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Baltimore, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780801888656
Notes: End notes and bibliographical references conclude each chapter.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Dark modernity from Mary Shelley to Samuel Beckett: gothic history, the gothic tradition, and modernism / John Paul Riquelme; title: pt. 1. The 1890s; title: Oscar Wilde's aesthetic gothic: Walter Pater, dark enlightenment, and The picture of Dorian Gray / John Paul Riquelme; title: "Double born": Bram Stoker and the metrocolonial gothic / Joseph Valente; title: Oxford's ghosts: Jude, the obscure and the end of the gothic / Patrick R. O'Malley; title: pt. 2. Gothic popular forms; title: Race, labor, and the gothic western: dispelling frontier myths in Dorothy Scarborough's The wind / Susan Kollin; title: "I'm in the business too": gothic chivalry, private eyes, and proxy sex and violence in Chandler's The big sleep / Charles J. Rzepka; title: Parodied to death: the postmodern gothic of American psycho / Ruth Helyer; title: pt. 3. The gothic and language; title: Reading rooms: M.R. James and the library of modernity / Penny Fielding; title: "No more than ghosts make": the hauntology and gothic minimalism of Beckett's late work / Graham Fraser; title: pt. 4. Gothic cultural transformations: technology, the posthuman, and total war; title: From superhuman to posthuman: the gothic technological imaginary in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis / Theodora Goss and John Paul Riquelme; title: Gothic temporality and total war: Collins, Conrad, and Woolf / Paul K. Saint-Amour.