Graveyard Gothic

<i>Graveyard Gothic</i> is the first sustained consideration of the graveyard as a key Gothic locale. This volume examines various iterations of the Gothic graveyard (and other burial sites) from the eighteenth century to the twenty-first as expressed in numerous forms of culture and media including poetry fiction TV film and video games. The volume also extends its geographic scope beyond British traditions to accommodate multiple cultural perspectives including those from the US Mexico Japan Australia India and Eastern Europe. The seventeen chapters from key international Gothic scholars engage a range of theoretical frameworks including the historical material colonial political and religious. With a critical introduction offering a platform for further scholarship and a coda mapping potential future critical and cultural developments <i>Graveyard Gothic</i> is a landmark volume defining a new area of Gothic studies.