Anthem Studies in Gothic Literature

Thomas Tod Stoddart’s innovative gothic epic poem The Death-Wake (1831), now little known, may have been lost to history if not for the interventions of Edgar Allan Poe in 1842 and Andrew Lang in 1895. This critical edition reprints and contextualises Stoddart’s morbid and distinctive masterpiece, bringing to light an important but overlooked expression of the Scottish Gothic with transatlantic cultural implications.

Animals in Gothic Short Fiction is an anthology of 19th- and early 20th-century Gothic short stories featuring animals.

Archipelagothic: The Gothic in Philippine Culture is an edited volume that brings together essays that examine the place of the gothic in Philippine culture. This groundbreaking volume, the first book on the topic, is appropriately comprehensive, covering a range of genres, historical periods, regions, and languages.

This study traces a the dark, sensorial epistemologies emerging from intersections of documentary and horror cinema. From the ineffable subjects of horror documentaries and pseudo- documentaries, to the obsessive chroniclers of mockumentary, fake found-footage, and screenlife horror cinema, the films examined here express a generalized millennial and 21st-century archival anxiety around an unsettled and unsettling hypermediated reality.

California has always represented new beginnings and opportunities in a golden land. In constructing the California Dream, much has been omitted or repressed. This study explores the dark side of the dream, as revealed in the state’s rich tradition of Gothic literature and film.

This scholarly monograph explores the published eyewitness testimonies, poetry and literature surrounding the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. It argues for the contextualisation of the disaster’s collective traumatic wound and its Soviet political repression through public articulation of survivor experience and its interpretation by the trauma narratives of Science Fiction and the Gothic.

The Colombian Gothic in Cinema and Literature postulates defining aesthetic features and political functions of the genre in Colombia—from the nineteenth century to the present, and from Bogotá to Cali.

The book defines and discusses Fen Gothic, an example of regional Gothic inflected by geography, relationships of centre and margins, history, ecology and gender and the perspectives offered by related Gothic critical approaches. 

Examining multiple reworkings of the author’s most famous stories in literature, theatre, film and beyond, the volume is dedicated to exploring the ever-evolving cultural legacy of Daphne du Maurier. In doing so, it interrogates adaptation as a distinctly Gothic process, concerned with hauntings, doublings and transformations.

Excavating the Castle demonstrates that the serious and respectable historiography of the Gothic begins not in 1921 but in the early nineteenth century and that the Gothic concept crystallized more than half a century earlier than historians of the Gothic had realized previously. 

This collection not only provides a starting point for students and researchers of Gothic Studies interested in the variations and adaptations within the German tradition, but it also serves as a primer for Germanists interested in establishing––or reevaluating––the place of the Gothic in German literary and cultural history.

Gothic Appalachian Literature examines the ways contemporary Appalachian authors utilize gothic tropes to explore the complex history and contemporary problems of the region, particularly in terms of the representation of economic, environmental, and political concerns.