The last days of the urban burial ground: horror, reform and gothic fiction

Luckhurst, Roger (2024) The last days of the urban burial ground: horror, reform and gothic fiction. In: Parisot, E. and Mcallister, David and Reyes, X.A. (eds.) Graveyard Gothic. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, pp. 47-60. ISBN 9781526166319.

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Abstract

Book synopsis: Graveyard Gothic is the first sustained consideration of the graveyard as a key Gothic locale. This volume examines various iterations of the Gothic graveyard (and other burial sites) from the eighteenth century to the twenty-first, as expressed in numerous forms of culture and media including poetry, fiction, TV, film and video games. The volume also extends its geographic scope beyond British traditions to accommodate multiple cultural perspectives, including those from the US, Mexico, Japan, Australia, India and Eastern Europe. The seventeen chapters from key international Gothic scholars engage a range of theoretical frameworks, including the historical, material, colonial, political and religious. With a critical introduction offering a platform for further scholarship and a coda mapping potential future critical and cultural developments, Graveyard Gothic is a landmark volume defining a new area of Gothic studies.

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Item Type:	Book Section
School:	Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication
Depositing User:	Roger Luckhurst
Date Deposited:	05 Aug 2024 13:55
Last Modified:	05 Aug 2024 13:55
URI:	https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/53580

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