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GOTHIC LEGACIES
Series editors:
Professor Daniel Cook
Professor Nick Groom
Dr Maisha Wester
Contact: lucy.brown[at]bloomsbury.com
Bloomsbury’s Gothic Legacies showcases the “living archive” of Gothic writers and other creative artists from around the globe, whether through a critical examination of the persistence and pertinence of their tropes and themes or the creative reception of their works in literature, theatre and performance, popular and fine art, film and television, music, and other media. This series chiefly attends to major Gothic works produced in the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, while also drawing out connections with non-canonical works and modern reworkings from the vantage points of diverse conceptual approaches. The Gothic tradition continues to influence our cultural lives in profound ways, helping us to define the human condition, confront personal and social injustices, and engage with the world around us in an increasingly inclusive manner. This series simultaneously addresses contemporary concerns by re-engaging with familiar, charismatic works of literature and interrogates the ongoing relevance of those works in the twenty-first century.
Objectives
•to examine the influence of canonical Gothic works today;
•to recover once significant but now lesser-known writers and their works;
•to model the intellectual merits of different conceptual frameworks;
•to commemorate major milestones in the Gothic tradition, including anniversaries.
Have a proposal idea?
We solicit monographs, mini-graphs, multi-graphs and essay collections in two strands within the series to enable a thorough but flexible exploration of the living archive of the Gothic. We welcome suggestions for alternative formats, too.
Strand 1 – critical examinations of pertinent and persistent tropes and themes as they appear in literature and other media from the vantage points of diverse conceptual approaches in the areas of race and ethnicity, BLM, identity politics, LGBTQ+, environmentalism, and more. Themes and tropes might include the haunted house and domestic violence, the weird and the eerie, body modification and dysmorphia, lockdown and incarceration, among other things.
Strand 2 – explorations of the creative reception of key works in literature and other media. This may comprise studies of serialised and transmedia adaptations, sequels, or reworkings in a variety of formats as diverse as educational videos, subcultural identity formation, and tourism. This strand includes studies of non-White and/or queer creative responses that critique, speak back to or otherwise revitalize works by Mary Shelley, the Brontës, Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, H. P. Lovecraft, Shirley Jackson, and Angela Carter, among other canonical authors.
This series accommodates the traditional monograph (up to 90,000 words), as well as the increasingly popular short-form format (up to 50,000 words) where this better suits specific research questions with one overriding concern or perspective in mind. Essay collections in the series typically follow the conventional length (up to 90,000 words), in order to address a topic comprehensively, but smaller collections tied to major anniversaries or targeted themes would be better placed in a shorter and more flexible form.
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