Italian Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion (Edinburgh Companions to the Gothic) - Hardcover

Malvestio, Marco; Serafini, Stefano

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1474490166 ISBN 13: 9781474490160

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2023

Synopsis

The first critical study that theorises the Italian Gothic and examines its main forms and manifestations across arts, media, and disciplines. Offers a new account of the historical developments of Gothic narratives in the Italian context from the second half of the eighteenth century to the present day Explores how, and with what implications, the Gothic has infiltrated a variety of media, including poetry, periodicals and magazines, cinema, comics, and music Examines some of the major themes of the Italian Gothic, such as the Gothic body, the female Gothic, Gothic criminology, and folk horror and the ecogothic This companion constitutes the first, systematic theorisation of the Italian Gothic. Through an interdisciplinary, trans-medial approach that encompasses prose fiction, poetry, journalism, film, music, and comics, it explores the varied and complex metamorphoses of the Gothic in Italy from the late eighteenth century to the present day. Although the last thirty years have seen a burgeoning in the academic study of the Gothic at college and university levels and in related publications, scholars have long struggled to even acknowledge the very existence of this mode in the Italian context. This companion does not only fill in a historical and critical gap in the scholarship, but it also contributes to revitalising the field of Gothic Studies, opening new channels of communication, and paving the way to the exploration of the fruitful interchanges between Italian and other European and American configurations of the Gothic.

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About the Author

Marco Malvestio is EU Marie Sk?odowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Padua. His project, EcoSF The Ecology of Italian Science Fiction, conducted in partnership with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, explores the presence of ecological issues in Italian science fiction. He published The Conflict Revisited: The Second World War in Post-Postmodern Fiction (Peter Lang, 2021) and Raccontare la fine del mondo. Fantascienza e Antropocene (nottetempo, 2021).Stefano Serafini holds a PhD in comparative literature and cultures from Royal Holloway, University of London. He was postdoctoral fellow in Italian Studies at the University of Toronto. He is Research Fellow at the University of Warwick. His contributions have appeared in journals such as Italian Studies, The Italianist, Quaderni del 900, Transalpina, Clues: A Journal of Detection and the Revue des litt ratures europ ennes.

Edition details

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1474490166
• ISBN 13: 9781474490160
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 264
• Editor: Malvestio Marco, Serafini Stefano