| Title | : | 21st-Century Gothic: Great Gothic Novels Since 2000 |
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| ISBN | : | 0810877287 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9780810877283 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 710 |
| Publication | : | First published December 29, 2010 |
Contributors of the fifty-three all-new essays include award-winning novelists, playwrights, biographers, editors, psychoanalysts, forensic psychologists, criminologists, film scholars, humanities librarians, and many of the most influential neo-Gothic literary critics of the last thirty years.
Designed for the Gothic fan, student, and critic alike, this massive guide also includes a perceptive foreword by Horror scholar S.T. Joshi and an equally compelling introduction by Gothic anthologist Danel Olson. Small B&W reproductions of the novels' dust jackets preface each long original essay (often of works that have had as yet little sustained critical attention), and three appendices name consultants and contributors, honorable mentions, and novel publication data.
21st CENTURY GOTHIC aims to broaden the perspective and understanding of any student of literature from our Gothic times. A chapter averaging 5,000 words is presented on each of the The Angel Maker, Banquet for the Damned, Beasts, The Blind Assassin, The Book Thief, The Bride of Pandora's Bride, Candles Burning, The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein, Clowns at Midnight, Cold Skin, The Crimson Petal and the White, A Dark Matter, The Dark Tower Series, The Darkest Part of the Woods, The Dracula Dossier, The Eden Moore Trilogy, Eva Moves the Furniture, Fatal Women, Fingersmith, The Forgotten Garden, Four Souls, The Gargoyle, The Ghost Writer, Gould's Book of Fish, The Graveyard Book, Heart-Shaped Box, The Historian, The Horned Man, House of Leaves, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, The Keep, The Little Friend, Lost, The Lovely Bones, Lullaby, Martha Peake, The Meaning of A Confession, Memoirs of a Master Forger, A Mercy, The Merrily Watkins Series, The Monsters of Templeton, Never Let Me Go, No Country for Old Men, The Portrait of Mrs. A Picturesque Terror, The Pumpkin Child, Real World, A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Shadow of the Wind, The Terror, The Thirteenth Tale, Thursbitch, The Twilight Saga, and White Apples.
21st-Century Gothic: Great Gothic Novels Since 2000 Reviews
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This collection of academic essays proved a fascinating read. Naturally in a collection with 53 contributors there were some essays that flowed better than others. The criteria for what constitutes a Gothic or New Gothic novel obviously in academic circles is wider than I realised.
While I enjoyed the essays on books I had already read, I did have to skim parts of the ones written about novels that were already on my 'to be read' mountain as most of the essays contained plot spoilers in their analysis.
I am pleased that my local library bought a copy of this work as it will allow me to pop in and read those chapters in more depth once I've read the books. -
Danel Olson has edited an excellent collection of essays and musings about gothic novels of the 21st century. Of course, this book is a great addition to libraries and a resource for scholars, but it is also a pleasure to savor for fans of gothic literature in its many guises. For those of us who appreciate the gothic of bygone times, 21st Century Gothic offers reassurance that the timeless themes and thrills continue with new generations of writers. I am fascinated by the essays on novels I've already read and enjoyed and am gathering a reading list of gothic lit to explore in the future.
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I should admit that I have an essay on Graham Joyce's er, "William Heaney's" Memoirs of a Master Forger.
