33. Gothic and Internet Fiction: Digital Affordances and New Media Fears

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations viii
4. Notes on Contributors xiii
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I: Architectural Arts
7. 1. Gothic and Architecture: Morris, Ruskin, Carlyle and the Gothic Legacies of the Lake Poets 15
8. 2. Gothic and the Built Environment: Literary Representations of the Architectural Uncanny and Urban Sublime 36
9. 3. Gothic and Design: The Geometrical Roots of Gothic Aesthetics in the Cologne Cathedral Choir 52
10. 4. Gothic and Sculpture: From Medieval Piety to Modern Horrors and Terrors 69
11. 5. Gothic and Installation Art: Spectral Materialities, Monstrous Ephemera 89
12. Part II: The Visual Arts
13. 6. Gothic and Earlier Painting: Nightmares and Premature Burials in Fuseli and Wiertz 107
14. 7. Gothic, Caricature, Cartoon: Insatiable Nightmares 122
15. 8. Gothic and Portraiture: Resemblance and Rupture 133
16. 9. Gothic and Surrealism: Subculture, Counterculture and Cultural Assimilation 148
17. 10. Gothic and Modern Art: The Experience of Ivan Albright 159
18. 11. Gothic and Photography: The Darkest Art 171
19. Part III: Music and the Performance Arts
20. 12. Gothic and Music: Scoring ‘Silent’ Spectres 189
21. 13. Gothic and Opera: Overwhelming Passions and Irrational Dreams 201
22. 14. Gothic, Ballet, Dance: The Aesthetics and Kinaesthetics of Death 214
23. 15. Gothic and Contemporary Music: Dark Sound, Dark Mood, Dark Aesthetics 229
24. Part IV: The Literary Arts
25. 16. Gothic and Graveyard Poetry: Imagining the Dead (of Night) 245
26. 17. Gothic Chapbooks and Ballads: Making a Long Story Short 259
27. 18. Gothic and Nineteenth-Century Poetry: Thresholds of Influence, Possibilities and Desire 271
28. 19. Gothic and Modern Poetry: The Poetics of Transgression 286
29. 20. Gothic and the Eighteenth-Century Novel: At Home in the English Style 297
30. 21. Gothic and the Nineteenth-Century Novel: The Art of Abjection 310
31. 22. Gothic and Recent Fiction: Fears of the Past and of the Future 321
32. 23. Gothic and the Short Story: Revolutions in Form and Genre 332
33. 24. Gothic, Melodrama, Victorian Theatre: Gothic Drama to 1890 346
34. 25. Gothic and Modern Theatre: Staging Modern Cultural Trauma 358
35. 26. Gothic and Children’s Literature: Wolves in Walls and Clocks in Crocodiles 365
36. 27. Gothic and Young Adult Literature: Werewolves, Vampires, Monsters, Rebellion, Broken Hearts and True Romance 378
37. Part V: Media and Cultural Arts
38. 28. Gothic and Cinema: The Development of an Aesthetic Filmic Mode 395
39. 29. Gothic and Television: The Monster in the Living Room 406
40. 30. Gothic and Comics: From The Haunt of Fear to a Haunted Medium 418
41. 31. Gothic and the Graphic Novel: From the Future Shocks of Judge Dredd to the Aftershocks of DC Vertigo 434
42. 32. Gothic and Video Games: Playing with Fear in the Darkness 449
43. 33. Gothic and Internet Fiction: Digital Affordances and New Media Fears 460
44. Index 472