Gothic Modernisms

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction: Gothic Modernisms: History, Culture and Aesthetics

   • Andrew Smith, Jeff Wallace

   Pages 1-10

3. Hungry Ghosts and Foreign Bodies

   • David Punter

   Pages 11-28

4. The ‘Spectrality Effect’ in Early Modernism

   • David Glover

   Pages 29-43

5. ‘Psychical’ Cases: Transformations of the Supernatural in Virginia Woolf and May Sinclair

   • David Seed

   Pages 44-61

6. The Ghost and the Omnibus: the Gothic Virginia Woolf

   • Judith Wilt

   Pages 62-77

7. Strolling in the Dark: Gothic Flânerie in Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood

   • Avril Horner, Sue Zlosnik

   Pages 78-94

8. ‘Thick Within Our Hair’: Djuna Barnes’s Gothic Lovers1

   • Deborah Tyler-Bennett

   Pages 95-110

9. ‘The stern task of living’: Dubliners,Clerks, Money and Modernism

   • Jeff Wallace

   Pages 111-128

10. The Modernist Abominations of William Hope Hodgson

    • Kelly Hurley

    Pages 129-149

11. Vampirism, Masculinity and Degeneracy: D. H. Lawrence’s Modernist Gothic

    • Andrew Smith

    Pages 150-166

12. Arctic Masks in a Castle of Ice: Gothic Vorticism and Wyndham Lewis’s Self Condemned

    • Francesca Orestano

    Pages 167-187

13. Metropolis and the Modernist Gothic

    • Nigel Morris

    Pages 188-206

14. Hollywood Gothic/Gothic Hollywood: the Example of Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard

    • Julian Wolfreys

    Pages 207-224

15. Back Matter

    Pages 225-232

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This is the first full length exploration of the relationship between Gothic fiction and Modernism in fiction and film. The Gothic's fascination with images of the fragmented self is echoed in the Modernist concern with the psyche and the paranoia of the everyday. The contributors explore how the Gothic influences a range of writers including James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, May Sinclair, Elizabeth Bowen and Djuna Barnes.

• aesthetics
• culture
• David Herbert Lawrence
• fiction
• film
• fragment
• Hollywood
• Modernism

• University of Glamorgan, UK

  Andrew Smith, Jeff Wallace

DAVID GLOVER Senior Lecturer in English, University of Southampton AVRIL HORNER Professor of English and Director of the European Studies Research Institute, University of Salford KELLY HURLEY Associate Professor of English, University of Colorado, Boulder NIGEL MORRIS Director of Media Studies and Senior Lecturer in English, Trinity College, Carmarthen FRANCESCA ORESTANO Professor of English Literature and Comparative Literature, University of Milan DAVID PUNTER Professor of English, Bristol University DAVID SEED Reader, English Department, Liverpool University DEBORAH TYLER-BENNETT Poet and Author JUDITH WILT Professor of English, Boston College JULIAN WOLFREYS Associate Professor of English, University of Florida SUE ZLOSNIK Associate Dean of Arts, Liverpool Hope University College

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