The thoroughly expanded and updated New Companion to the Gothic, provides a series of stimulating insights into Gothic writing, its history and genealogy. The addition of 12 new essays and a section on ‘Global Gothic’ reflects the direction Gothic criticism has taken over the last decade.

• Many of the original essays have been revised to reflect current debates
• Offers comprehensive coverage of criticism of the Gothic and of the various theoretical approaches it has inspired and spawned
• Features important and original essays by leading scholars in the field
• The editor is widely recognized as the founder of modern criticism of the Gothic

• A NEW COMPANION TO THE GOTHIC 6
  • Contents 10
  • Notes on Contributors 13
  • Acknowledgments 20
  • Introduction: The Ghost of a History 22
  • Part I: Gothic Backgrounds 32
    • 1: In Gothic Darkly: Heterotopia, History, Culture 34
    • 2: The Goths in History and Pre-Gothic Gothic 46
    • 3: Gothic Shakespeare 59
    • 4: European Gothic 85
    • 5: The Gothic Ballad 98
  • Part II: The Original Gothic 112
    • 6: Ann Radcliffe and Matthew Lewis 114
    • 7: Mary Shelley, Author of 131
    • 8: Walter Scott, James Hogg, and Scottish Gothic 144