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Chernobyl Trauma and Gothic
Testimony, Cultural Memory and Global Literary Perspectives
Stuart Lindsay
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.
Hardback
9781839990649
June 2025
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£110.00 / $110.00This 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.
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German Gothic Literature
Origins, Adaptations, Transformations
Edited by Curtis Maughan, Jeffrey High
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.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839990069
March 2025
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00This 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.
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Revolution, Empire, and the Gothic Dream
Richard Moore Jr.
This monograph examines the centrality of dreams and their significant transformations in British Gothic novels and in Caribbean novels. The Gothic counters the Enlightenment’s internalization of dreams by reimagining dreams as social and political phenomena. They subsequently play vital roles in responding to profound questions concerning revolution and empire.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839986741
March 2025
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00This monograph examines the centrality of dreams and their significant transformations in British Gothic novels and in Caribbean novels. The Gothic counters the Enlightenment’s internalization of dreams by reimagining dreams as social and political phenomena. They subsequently play vital roles in responding to profound questions concerning revolution and empire.
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Critical Approaches to Fen Gothic Literature
Gina Wisker
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.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839982033
January 2025
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00The 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.
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Nuclear Gothic
Textual and Cultural Fusions
Helena K Bacon
Nuclear Gothic investigates the previously unexplored congruities that lie between gothic forms and modes and nuclear cultures and techno-sciences; it aims to read Western nuclear fictions in relation to their Japanese counterparts and through a cohesive critical framework that examines atomic processes, nuclear fictions and specific historical and cultural moments.
Anthem Press
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9781839981623
January 2025
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00Nuclear Gothic investigates the previously unexplored congruities that lie between gothic forms and modes and nuclear cultures and techno-sciences; it aims to read Western nuclear fictions in relation to their Japanese counterparts and through a cohesive critical framework that examines atomic processes, nuclear fictions and specific historical and cultural moments.
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Nordic Terrors
Scandinavian Superstition in British Gothic Literature
Robert William Rix
In late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British literature, Scandinavia emerged as a place where Gothic terror took place. This book explores the extensive use of Nordic superstition in providing a vocabulary for Gothic texts as well as the cultural significance it had for writers attempting to understand Britain’s northern roots.
Anthem Press
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9781839990458
September 2024
Forthcoming
£24.95 / $24.95In late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British literature, Scandinavia emerged as a place where Gothic terror took place. This book explores the extensive use of Nordic superstition in providing a vocabulary for Gothic texts as well as the cultural significance it had for writers attempting to understand Britain’s northern roots.
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Taxidermy and the Gothic
The Horror of Still Life
Elizabeth Effinger
Taxidermy and the Gothic: The Horror of Still Life is the first extended study of the Gothic’s collusion with taxidermy. Focusing on contemporary cultural and material texts, it shows how taxidermy’s imbrication with Gothic horror is more than skin deep: these are rich discourses stuffed by affinities for corporeal transgressions, the uncanny, and the counterfeit.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839990267
June 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00Taxidermy and the Gothic: The Horror of Still Life is the first extended study of the Gothic’s collusion with taxidermy. Focusing on contemporary cultural and material texts, it shows how taxidermy’s imbrication with Gothic horror is more than skin deep: these are rich discourses stuffed by affinities for corporeal transgressions, the uncanny, and the counterfeit.
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Archipelagothic: Studies in the Philippine Gothic
Edited by Jeremy C. De Chavez
Archipelagothic: Studies in the Philippine Gothic is an edited collection 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.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785279300
May 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00Archipelagothic: Studies in the Philippine Gothic is an edited collection 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.
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California Gothic: The Dark Side of the Dream
Charles L. Crow
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.
Anthem Press
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9781839983795
January 2024
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£24.95 / $24.95California 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.
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Theology in the Early British and Irish Gothic, 1764–1834
Sam Hirst
Theology in the Early British and Irish Gothic, 1764–1832 reassesses the relationship between contemporary theology and the Gothic. Investigating Gothic aesthetics, depictions of the supernatural and portrayals of religious organisations, it explores how the Gothic engages with contemporary theologies, both Dissenting and Anglican.
Anthem Press
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9781839981531
July 2023
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£110.00 / $110.00Theology in the Early British and Irish Gothic, 1764–1832 reassesses the relationship between contemporary theology and the Gothic. Investigating Gothic aesthetics, depictions of the supernatural and portrayals of religious organisations, it explores how the Gothic engages with contemporary theologies, both Dissenting and Anglican.
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Gothic Travel through Haunted Landscapes
Climates of Fear
Lucie Armitt, Scott Brewster
This book argues that travel in Gothic literature offers a unique and transformative perspective on recurring cultural preoccupations with fear, unknown landscapes, environmental change, surveillance, and the foreign.
Anthem Press
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9781839980213
December 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00This book argues that travel in Gothic literature offers a unique and transformative perspective on recurring cultural preoccupations with fear, unknown landscapes, environmental change, surveillance, and the foreign.
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Swedish Gothic
Landscapes of Untamed Nature
Yvonne Leffler
The monograph gives an overview of the development and characteristic features of Swedish Gothic from the Romantic age until today.
Anthem Press
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9781839980336
November 2022
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£24.95 / $24.95The monograph gives an overview of the development and characteristic features of Swedish Gothic from the Romantic age until today.
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Gulf Gothic
Mexico, the U.S. South and La Llorona’s Undead Voices
Dolores Flores-Silva, Keith Cartwright
Gulf Gothic examines haunted, secret-laden narratives that emerge from the gulfs between peoples all along the Gulf of Mexico and on both sides of the Rio Grande. The Gulf is presented as a unified region and as dynamic ground zero of North American (and global) cross-culturality and traumas.
Anthem Press
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9781839980367
November 2022
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£24.95 / $24.95Gulf Gothic examines haunted, secret-laden narratives that emerge from the gulfs between peoples all along the Gulf of Mexico and on both sides of the Rio Grande. The Gulf is presented as a unified region and as dynamic ground zero of North American (and global) cross-culturality and traumas.
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Gothic Appalachian Literature
Sarah Robertson
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 their representation of economic and environmental concerns.
Anthem Press
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9781839986789
May 2022
Forthcoming
£24.95 / $24.95Gothic 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 their representation of economic and environmental concerns.
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The Gothic Literature and History of New England
Secrets of the Restless Dead
Faye Ringel
The Gothic Literature and History of New England surveys the origin, nature and future of the Gothic mode in New England’s history and literature, from the Puritans to the present, showing how the legacy of religious intolerance, racism and misogyny haunts fiction, film and popular culture.
Anthem Press
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9781785279034
February 2022
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£24.95 / $24.95The Gothic Literature and History of New England surveys the origin, nature and future of the Gothic mode in New England’s history and literature, from the Puritans to the present, showing how the legacy of religious intolerance, racism and misogyny haunts fiction, film and popular culture.
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Gothic Kernow: Cornwall as Strange Fiction
Ruth Heholt, Tanya Krzywinska
Focussing on written and visual culture that is made in or made about Cornwall, this book argues that Cornwall and the Scilly Isles (known as ‘Kernow’ in the Cornish language) have a special relationship with Gothic, one that has been overlooked in the literature on regional Gothic.
Anthem Press
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9781785279065
January 2022
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£24.95 / $24.95Focussing on written and visual culture that is made in or made about Cornwall, this book argues that Cornwall and the Scilly Isles (known as ‘Kernow’ in the Cornish language) have a special relationship with Gothic, one that has been overlooked in the literature on regional Gothic.
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Colombian Gothic in Cinema and Literature
Gabriel Eljaiek-Rodriguez
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.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785278310
November 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00The 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.
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The Cultural Construction of Monstrous Children
Essays on Anomalous Children From 1595 to the Present Day
Edited by Simon Bacon, Leo Ruickbie
This innovative and interdisciplinary collection of essays considers examples of monstrous children since the 16th century to the present, spanning real-life and popular culture, to exhibit the manifestation of the Western cultural anxiety around the problematic, anomalous child as naughty, dangerous, or just plain evil.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785275203
September 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00This innovative and interdisciplinary collection of essays considers examples of monstrous children since the 16th century to the present, spanning real-life and popular culture, to exhibit the manifestation of the Western cultural anxiety around the problematic, anomalous child as naughty, dangerous, or just plain evil.
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Nineteenth-Century Southern Gothic Short Fiction
Haunted by the Dark
Edited by Charles L. Crow, Susan Castillo Street
Twelve uncanny tales of the race-haunted nineteenth-century South, by authors both celebrated and obscure, are presented along with background readings, themselves often chilling, placing the tales in a historical context.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785273872
August 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00Twelve uncanny tales of the race-haunted nineteenth-century South, by authors both celebrated and obscure, are presented along with background readings, themselves often chilling, placing the tales in a historical context.
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Neo-Gothic Narratives
Illusory Allusions from the Past
Edited by Sarah E. Maier, Brenda Ayres
‘Neo-Gothic Narratives’ defines and theorises what mobilises the employment of the Gothic to speak to our own times.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785272172
March 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00‘Neo-Gothic Narratives’ defines and theorises what mobilises the employment of the Gothic to speak to our own times.
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Sir Rohan’s Ghost. A Romance
Harriet Prescott Spofford
Edited by Matthew Wynn SivilsOriginally published in 1860, the formative Gothic novel by Harriet Prescott Spofford (1835–1921), one of nineteenth-century America’s most significant woman writers, relates the tale of a tormented British aristocrat who struggles to retain his sanity while suffering horrifying visitations from the spectre of his dead lover amid the agonies of an already fragile mind.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785272875
December 2019
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£125.00 / $125.00Originally published in 1860, the formative Gothic novel by Harriet Prescott Spofford (1835–1921), one of nineteenth-century America’s most significant woman writers, relates the tale of a tormented British aristocrat who struggles to retain his sanity while suffering horrifying visitations from the spectre of his dead lover amid the agonies of an already fragile mind.