Kędra-Kardela Anna, Kowalczyk Andrzej Sławomir (eds.) Expanding the Gothic Canon: Studies in Literature, Film and New Media

Peter Lang, 2014. — 304 p. — (Mediated Fictions. Volume 2). — ISBN 978-3-631-62639-9.This monograph contains analyses of Gothic texts: literary works, films, and video games. It shows the expansion of the convention across the ages and the media. The studies aim at being instructive as well as inspirational for university teachers and students of the Gothic alike.Editors’ Preface.
The Gothic Canon: Contexts, Features, Relationships, Perspectives. Anna Kędra-Kardela and Andrzej Sławomir Kowalczyk.
Gothic Castaways: Dreams, Demons and Monsters in Early Modern Desert Island Narratives. Artur Blaim.
Ambivalence and Ambiguity in Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey. Wojciech Nowicki.
A Christmas Carol—Charles Dickens’s Ghostly Academy. Aleksandra Kędzierska.
The Undead Queen: Queen Victoria’s Afterlife in Gothic Fiction. Dorota Babilas.
First-Person Noir: Murderousness and (Ir)rationality in Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction. Jorge Bastos da Silva.
Faculty Gothic in the American College Novel of the 1990s. Ludmiła Gruszewska Blaim.
Competing Genres in the English Country House: The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters. Urszula Terentowicz-Fotyga.
Ghosts and Their Stories in Children’s Fiction. Jadwiga Węgrodzka.
In the Bowels of a Gothic Microverse: Delicatessen as a Semiotic Palimpsest. Justyna Galant.
Gothic Automata and the Kunstkammer Island: The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes by Quay Brothers. Zofia Kolbuszewska.
The Murder House, or the Archaic Mother in American Horror Story. Marta Komsta.
Gothic Videogames. Paweł Frelik.
Index.
Contributors.