Written from various critical standpoints by internationally renowned scholars, Scottish Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion interrogates the ways in which the concepts of the Gothic and Scotland have intersected and been manipulated from the mid-eighteenth century to the present day. This interdisciplinary collection is the first ever published study to investigate the multifarious strands of Gothic in Scottish fiction, poetry, theatre and film. Its contributors — all specialists in their fields — combine an attention to socio-historical and cultural contexts with a rigorous close reading of works, both classic and lesser known, produced between the eighteenth and twenty-first centuries.
Author(s): Carol Margaret Davison and Monica Germanà
Series: Edinburgh Companions to the Gothic
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Year: 2017
Scottish Gothic
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgements
1 Borderlands of Identity and the Aesthetics of Disjuncture: An introduction to Scottish Gothic
2 ‘The Celtic Century’ and the Genesis of Scottish Gothic
3 The Politics and Poetics of the ‘Scottish Gothic’ from Ossian to Otranto and Beyond
4 Robert Burns and the Scottish Bawdy Politic
5 Scottish Gothic Drama
6 Scottish Gothic Poetry
7 Calvinist and Covenanter Gothic
8 Gothic Scott
9 Gothic Hogg
10 ‘The Singular Wrought Out into the Strange and Mystical’: Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine and the Transformation of Terror
11 Gothic Stevenson
12 J. M. Barrie’s Gothic: Ghosts, Fairy Tales and Lost Children
13 The ‘nouveau frisson’: Muriel Spark’s Gothic Fiction
14 Scottish Gothic and the Moving Image: A Tale of Two Traditions
15 New Frankensteins; or, the Body Politic
16 Queer Scottish Gothic
17 Authorship, ‘Ghost-filled’ Islands and the Haunting Feminine: Contemporary Scottish Female Gothic
Notes on Contributors
Index
