The Gothic and the Everyday

1. Introduction: Living Gothic
Lorna Piatti-Farnell, Maria Beville

Part I. Uncanny Histories

2. Trauma, Gothic, Revolution
David Punter

3. Uncanny Communities: Empire and Its Others
Kristy Butler

4. Gothic Memory and the Contested Past: Framing Terror
Maria Beville

5. The Abhuman City: Peter Ackroyd’s Gothic Historiography of London
Ashleigh Prosser

Part II. Legend, Folklore, and Tradition

6. Spectral Pumpkins: Cultural Icons and the Gothic Everyday
Lorna Piatti-Farnell

7. The Doll’s Uncanny Soul
Susan Yi Sencindiver

8. Ghosting the Nation: La Llorona, Popular Culture, and the Spectral Anxiety of Mexican Identity
Enrique Ajuria Ibarra

9. A Dark Domesticity: Echoes of Folklore in Irish Contemporary Gothic
Tracy Fahey

Part III. Gothic ‘Remains’

10. Architecture and the Romance of Gothic Remains: John Carter and The Gentleman’s Magazine, 1797–1817
Dale Townshend

11. Morbid Dining: Writing the Haunted History of Last Meals
Donna Lee Brien

12. Gothic Remains in South Asian English Fiction
Tabish Khair

13. Haunting and the (Im)possibility of Māori Gothic
Misha Kavka

Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, Media Studies, Eighteenth-Century Literature, Cultural History, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Social Sciences, general