The Gothic in times of crisis

<i>The Gothic in times of crisis</i> reflects contemporary society showing how the Gothic modes continually resets its own forms to encompass each new reality each new apocalypse each new plague or crisis. This<i> </i>collection expands oncurrent scholarship to show how the Gothic challenges our understanding of both older and recent crises and in turn disturbs all genre complacencies to expose and confront the problems and contradictions in what our world has been has become or is in danger of becoming. This collection explores Gothic's current relevance to the contestations of ideas and the underlying and visible conflicts it dramatizes across a wide range of media. In various ways it reveals what happens to Gothic modes now they confront the increasingly Gothic realities of our times sometimesby recalling earlier crises and ideological contestations leading up to them.