THE GOTHIC WORLD The Gothic World offers an extensive overview of the popular field of the Gothic, from the eighteenth century through to the present day. Encompassing the literary, it also extends critical debate in exciting new directions, including film, politics, fashion, architecture, fine art, music, technology and cyberculture. Structured around the principles of time, space and practice, and including a detailed general introduction, the five sections of the volume consider: • Gothic histories • Gothic spaces • Gothic readers and writers • Gothic spectacle • Contemporary impulses. The Gothic World seeks to account for the Gothic as a multi- faceted, multi- dimensional force, as a style, an aesthetic experience and a mode of cultural expres- sion that traverses genres, forms, media, disciplines and national boundaries: a “Gothic World,” indeed. Glennis Byron is Professor of English at the University of Stirling, Scotland. With Dale Townshend, she co-r uns the MLitt in The Gothic Imagination. She was the principal investigator for the AHRC-funded Global Gothic network. Dale Townshend is Senior Lecturer in Gothic and Romantic Literature at the University of Stirling, Scotland, where he co-r uns, with Glennis Byron, the MLitt in The Gothic Imagination. THE ROUTLEDGE WORLDS THE REFORMATION WORLD Edited by Andrew Pettegree THE MEDIEVAL WORLD Edited by Peter Linehan and Janet L. Nelson THE BYZANTINE WORLD Edited by Paul Stephenson THE VIKING WORLD Edited by Stefan Brink in collaboration with Neil Price THE BABYLONIAN WORLD Edited by Gwendolyn Leick THE EGYPTIAN WORLD Edited by Toby Wilkinson THE ISLAMIC WORLD Edited by Andrew Rippin THE WORLD OF POMPEII Edited by John J. Dobbins and Pedar W. Foss THE RENAISSANCE WORLD Edited by John Jeffries Martin THE EARLY CHRISTIAN WORLD Edited by Philip F. Esler THE GREEK WORLD Edited by Anton Powell THE ROMAN WORLD Edited by John Wacher THE HINDU WORLD Edited by Sushil Mittal and Gene Thursby THE WORLD OF THE AMERICAN WEST Edited by Gordon Morris Bakken THE ELIZABETHAN WORLD Edited by Susan Doran and Norman Jones THE OTTOMAN WORLD Edited by Christine Woodhead THE VICTORIAN WORLD Edited by Martin Hewitt Forthcoming : THE MORMON WORLD Edited by Carl Mosser and Richard Sherlock THE SUMERIAN WORLD Edited by Harriet Crawford This page intentionally left blank T H E G O T H I C W O R L D Edited by Glennis Byron and Dale Townshend First published 2014 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2014 Glennis Byron and Dale Townshend for selection and editorial matter; individual contributions the contributors The right of Glennis Byron and Dale Townshend to be identified as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice : Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data The gothic world / edited by Glennis Byron and Dale Townshend. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Gothic revival (Literature) I. Byron, Glennis, 1955–editor of compilation. II. Townshend, Dale, editor of compilation. PN3435.G678 2014 809.3(cid:1929)876—dc23 2013009581 ISBN: 978-0-415-63744-2 (hbk) ISBN: 978-0-203-49001-3 (ebk) Typeset in Sabon by RefineCatch Limited, Bungay, Suffolk In Memoriam Marilyn Patricia Michaud 1959–2012 This page intentionally left blank CONTENTS List of figures xii Notes on contributors xv Acknowledgements xxii Introduction xxiv PART I: GOTHIC HISTORIES 1 1 The politics of Gothic historiography, 1660–1800 3 Sean Silver 2 Gothic antiquarianism in the eighteenth century 15 Rosemary Sweet 3 Gothic and the New American Republic, 1770–1800 27 Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock 4 Gothic and the Celtic fringe, 1750–1850 38 James Kelly 5 British Gothic nationhood, 1760–1830 51 Justin D. Edwards 6 Gothic colonies, 1850–1920 62 Roger Luckhurst 7 History, trauma and the Gothic in contemporary western fictions 72 Jerrold E. Hogle PART II: GOTHIC SPACES 83 8 Gothic and the architectural imagination, 1740–1840 85 Nicole Reynolds ix