The Edinburgh Companion to Gothic and the Arts - (Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities) by David Punter (Paperback)

About the Book

The Gothic in all its artistic forms and ramifications is traced from the medieval to the twenty-first century.

Book Synopsis

Provides new definitions of the Gothic in a variety of artistic contexts
Explores a range of Gothic from architecture through literature to music and the technological artsProvides an opportunity to hear new thinking from established scholars as well as showcasing work by new scholarsHighlights new definitions of the Gothic from a wide variety of perspectives

The Gothic in all its artistic forms and ramifications is traced from the medieval to the twenty-first century. From architecture, painting and sculpture through music, ballet, opera and dance to installation art and the graphic novel, each of the 33 chapters reflects on and weighs in on the ways in which the Gothic is taken up in the art forms and modes under examination. An Introduction discusses Gothic as a changing cultural form across the centuries with deep psychological roots. This is followed by sections on: architectural arts; the visual arts; music and the performance arts; the literary arts; and media and cultural arts.

Review Quotes

Interrogating the Gothic as an aesthetic category, evolving and elastic yet in possession of a complex history, these thirty-three carefully arranged chapters eruditely chart its prolific manifestations across a wide range of artistic forms and media, provoking us to reconsider what we think we know about the Gothic.

-- "Carol Margaret Davison, University of Windsor"

By juxtaposing such a rich array of interpretations of the genre, written by scholars rep-resenting multiple fields, this anthology maps out the varying terrains of the gothic and shows them to be at once monstrous and full of wonder.--Aviva Briefel, Bowdoin College "Victorian Studies"

About the Author

David Punter is Professor of English at the University of Bristol.