Gothic Modernisms

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 arange of writers including James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, May Sinclair, Elizabeth Bowen, and Djuna Barnes. Introduction: Gothic Modernisms: History, Culture And Aesthetics / Andrew Smith, Jeff Wallace -- Hungry Ghosts And Foreign Bodies / David Punter -- The 'spectrality Effect' In Early Modernism / David Glover -- 'psychical' Cases: Transformations Of The Supernatural In Virginia Woolf And May Sinclair / David Seed -- The Ghost And The Omnibus: The Gothic Virginia Woolf / Judith Wilt -- Strolling In The Dark: Gothic Flanerie In Djuna Barnes's Nightwood / Avril Horner, Sue Zlosnik -- 'thick Within Our Hair': Djuna Barnes's Gothic Lovers / Deborah Tyler-bennett -- 'the Stern Task Of Living': Dubliners, Clerks, Money And Modernism / Jeff Wallace -- The Modernist Abominations Of William Hope Hodgson / Kelly Hurley -- Vampirism, Masculinity And Degeneracy: D.h. Lawrence's Modernist Gothic / Andrew Smith -- Arctic Masks In A Castle Of Ice: Gothic Vorticism And Wyndham Lewis's Self Condemned / Francesca Orestano -- Metropolis And The Modernist Gothic / Nigel Morris -- Hollywood Gothic/gothic Hollywood: The Example Of Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard / Julian Wolfreys. Edited By Andrew Smith And Jeff Wallace. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Front Matter....Pages i-xii Introduction: Gothic Modernisms: History, Culture and Aesthetics....Pages 1-10 Hungry Ghosts and Foreign Bodies....Pages 11-28 The ‘Spectrality Effect’ in Early Modernism....Pages 29-43 ‘Psychical’ Cases: Transformations of the Supernatural in Virginia Woolf and May Sinclair....Pages 44-61 The Ghost and the Omnibus: the Gothic Virginia Woolf....Pages 62-77 Strolling in the Dark: Gothic Flânerie in Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood....Pages 78-94 ‘Thick Within Our Hair’: Djuna Barnes’s Gothic Lovers1....Pages 95-110 ‘The stern task of living’: Dubliners,Clerks, Money and Modernism....Pages 111-128 The Modernist Abominations of William Hope Hodgson....Pages 129-149 Vampirism, Masculinity and Degeneracy: D. H. Lawrence’s Modernist Gothic....Pages 150-166 Arctic Masks in a Castle of Ice: Gothic Vorticism and Wyndham Lewis’s Self Condemned....Pages 167-187 Metropolis and the Modernist Gothic....Pages 188-206 Hollywood Gothic/Gothic Hollywood: the Example of Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard....Pages 207-224 Back Matter....Pages 225-232 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. This is a 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