Includes bibliographical references and index. Originally published in the journal Modern fiction studies, volume 46, number 3, fall 2000.
Contents:
pt. IV : gothic cultural transformations : technology, the posthuman, and total war. Gothic temporality and total war : Collins, Conrad, and Woolf / Paul K. Saint-Amour. pt. I : the 1890s. Oscar Wilde's aesthetic gothic : Walter Pater, dark englightenment, and The picture of Dorian Gray / John Paul Riquelme. "Double born" : Bram Stoker and the metrocolonial gothic / Joseph Valente. Oxford's ghosts : Jude the obscure and the end of gothic / Patrick O'Malley -- pt. II : gothic popular forms. Race, labor, and the gothic western : dispelling frontier myths in Dorothy Scarborough's The wind / Susan Kollin. I'm in the business, too" : gothic chivalry, private eyes, and proxy sex and violence in Chandler's The big sleep / Charles J. Rzepka. Parodied to death : the postmodern gothic of American psycho / Ruth Helyer -- pt. III : the gothic and language. Reading rooms : M. R. James and the library of modernity / Penny Fielding. "No more than ghosts make" : the hauntology and gothic minimalism of Beckett's late work / Graham Fraser -- pt. IV : gothic cultural transformations : technology, the posthuman, and total war. From superhuman to posthuman : the gothic technological imaginary in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis / Theodora Goss and John Paul Riquelme. Gothic temporality and total war : Collins, Conrad, and Woolf / Paul K. Saint-Amour.
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