The Edinburgh Companion to Globalgothic (Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1399564811 ISBN 13: 9781399564816

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2026

Synopsis

Substantially reworks accounts of gothic and globalisation, to examine located gothic engagements with global histories and phenomena

• Winner of the International Gothic Association: Justin D. Edwards Prize 2024
• Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2024
• Provides a comprehensive theorisation of globalgothic in the age of planetary crisis
• Includes analyses of gothic fiction from six continents
• Offers a range of new globalgothic approaches, modalities and regional permutations

The Edinburgh Companion to Globalgothic is the most substantial exploration to date of gothic fiction in the international context. Examining texts from across six continents, the volume considers how gothic imagines, colludes with or interrogates relationships and phenomena that are planetary in scale. Accordingly, chapters address gothic engagements with – among others – resource imperialism, (ongoing) colonial history, diasporic identity, buckling economic unions, the rise of the internet, enthnonationalism, and entangled systems of gendered, racialised and ecocidal power. In this way, the collection moves decisively beyond the framework of globalisation to identify a range of new globalgothic approaches and modes, overall demonstrating that gothic is a key – though sometimes complicit – register for negotiating the challenges and histories of our uneven global present.

About this title

About the Author

Rebecca Duncan is Researcher in Literature at the Linnaeus University Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, where she co-ordinates the “Aesthetics of Empire” Research Cluster. She is the editor/co-editor of several collections, including ‘Decolonising Gothic,’ a special issue of Gothic Studies (Nov. 2022). Her recent work appears in the journals ARIEL (2020) and Interventions (2020; 2022), and in collections for Palgrave (2021), Bloomsbury (2022) and University of Minnesota Press (2022). Her first monograph, South African Gothic (2018), was shortlisted for the 2019 Allan Lloyd Smith Memorial Prize. Rebecca is recipient of a Riksbankens Jubileumsfond Project Grant (2021-24).

Edition details

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1399564811
• ISBN 13: 9781399564816
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 520
• Editor: Rebecca Duncan