The Gothic and the Everyday

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction: Living Gothic

   1. Introduction: Living Gothic

      • Lorna Piatti-Farnell, Maria Beville

      Pages 1-12

3. Uncanny Histories

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13

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   2. Trauma, Gothic, Revolution

      • David Punter

      Pages 15-32

   3. Uncanny Communities: Empire and Its Others

      • Kristy Butler

      Pages 33-51

   4. Gothic Memory and the Contested Past: Framing Terror

      • Maria Beville

      Pages 52-68

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

      • Ashleigh Prosser

      Pages 69-82

4. Legend, Folklore, and Tradition

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 83-83

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   2. Spectral Pumpkins: Cultural Icons and the Gothic Everyday

      • Lorna Piatti-Farnell

      Pages 85-102

   3. The Doll’s Uncanny Soul

      • Susan Yi Sencindiver

      Pages 103-130

   4. Ghosting the Nation: La Llorona, Popular Culture, and the Spectral Anxiety of Mexican Identity

      • Enrique Ajuria Ibarra

      Pages 131-151

   5. A Dark Domesticity: Echoes of Folklore in Irish Contemporary Gothic

      • Tracy Fahey

      Pages 152-169

5. Gothic ‘Remains’

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 171-171

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

      • Dale Townshend

      Pages 173-194

   3. Morbid Dining: Writing the Haunted History of Last Meals

      • Donna Lee Brien

      Pages 195-214

   4. Gothic Remains in South Asian English Fiction

      • Tabish Khair

      Pages 215-224

   5. Haunting and the (Im)possibility of Māori Gothic

      • Misha Kavka

      Pages 225-240

6. Back Matter

   Pages 241-260

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The Gothic and the Everyday aims to regenerate interest in the Gothic within the experiential contexts of history, folklore, and tradition. By using the term 'living', this book recalls a collection of experiences that constructs the everyday in its social, cultural, and imaginary incarnations

• Gothic
• Culture
• History
• Folklore
• Legend
• Lived Experience
• culture
• fiction
• Framing
• identity
• memory
• Nation
• Tradition

“The Gothic and the Everyday: Living Gothic is one of many fascinating books in the Palgrave Gothic series, which aims to show the many interrelated cultural aspects of the genre. … The Gothic and the Everyday: Living Gothic is a useful text for anyone interested in the Gothic, whether as an academic subject or an influential force. … it will appeal to anyone who is interested in the intersection between folklore and the Gothic.” (Nadia van der Westhuizen, Folklore, Vol. 127 (3), 2016)

• Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand

  Lorna Piatti-Farnell

• Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Ireland

  Maria Beville

Enrique Ajuria Ibarra, Universidad de las Américas Puebla, Mexico Maria Beville, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Ireland Donna Lee Brien, Central Queensland University, Australia Kristy Butler, Gothic scholar, Ireland Tracy Fahey, Limerick School of Art and Design, Ireland Misha Kavka, University of Auckland, New Zealand Tabish Khair, Aarhus University, Denmark Lorna Piatti-Farnell, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand Ashleigh Prosser, University of Western Australia David Punter, University of Bristol, UK Susan Yi Sencindiver, Aarhus University, Denmark Dale Townshend, University of Stirling, UK

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