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This collection not only provides a starting point for students and researchers of Gothic Studies interested in the variations and adaptations within the German tradition, but it also serves as a primer for Germanists interested in establishing--or reevaluating--the place of the Gothic in German literary and cultural history.
List of contents
Introduction; Part I: First Wave German Gothic
Literature (1773 – 1817); Chapter One: Alexander
Košenina (University of Hannover), “Schiller and the (short) German Crime
Novel”; Chapter Two: Sophia Clark
(Central Oklahoma University), “Midnight Rides,
Death, and Spectres: Early German Gothic Poetry (1770s—1790s)”; Chapter Three: Jeffrey L. High (California
State University, Long Beach), “The Arrival: British Reception of German Gothic
Literature”; Chapter Four:
Seán Allan (University of St. Andrews), “Kleist and the Gothic Novella”;
Chapter Five: Jeffrey L. High
(California State University, Long Beach), “Mereau, Brentano, Kleist, Wieland,
and the Spanish Gothic of María de Zayas”; Chapter
Six: Carrie Collenberg-González (Portland State University), “‘It was a dark
and stormy night’: The Legacy of Gespensterbuch and Fantasmagoria” ;
Part II: Second Wave German Gothic
and Romanticism (1818 – 1906); Chapter Seven: Daniel Purdy (Pennsylvania
State University), “Enclosure without
Transcendence: Hegel’s Cathedral and Gothic Literature”; Chapter Eight: Christopher Burwick (Hamilton College), “Cannibalism,
Infanticide, and Red Weddings: The Uncanny and the Collective Imagination in
German Folklore”; Chapter
Nine: Andrew Cusack (University of St. Andrews), “Beyond Romanticism:
Re-Reading Tieck and Hoffmann as German Gothic”; Chapter Ten: Melissa Etzler
(Butler University), “‘Da wurden die Dinge
rings um mich lebendig’ (Then, everything around me came to life): The
Transatlantic Ecogothic from Poe to Meyrink”; Part III: Reboot and Afterlife (1908 – present); Chapter Eleven: Elaine Chen (Harvard University), “‘Ganz von Zierat erdrückt!’: Jugendstil
Design in the Neo-Gothic Works of Thomas Mann, Stefan Zweig, and Franz Kafka”;
Chapter Twelve: Kai-Uwe Werbeck
(University of North Carolina, Charlotte), “Mysterious Caverns, Desolate
Mountains, and Haunted Castles: The Gothic in German Postwar Horror Cinema”; Chapter
Thirteen: Sarah Koellner (College of Charleston), “Following Ariadne's Thread:
On Gothic Imaginations and Mythological Corrections in the German Netflix
Series Dark”; Chapter
Fourteen: Natalie Martz (University of Oxford) and Curtis Maughan (University
of Arkansas), “The German Gothic Videogame”; Chapter Fifteen: Jeffrey L. High (California State
University, Long Beach) and Natalie Martz (University of Oxford), “U.S. German
Gothic Literature Reception from Irving to Stephen King”
About the author
Jeffrey L. High received his PhD from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and is Professor of German Studies at California State University, Long Beach, as well as Guest Professor at the German Summer School of the Pacific.
Curtis L. Maughan received his PhD from Vanderbilt University and is the Director of the World Languages and Digital Humanities Studio at the University of Arkansas, where he also serves as a Teaching Assistant Professor of World Languages and Digital Technology.
