Title
21st-Century Gothic: Great Gothic Novels Since 2000
Role
Editor: Danel Olson
Contributing author: Walter Rankin
Files
Document Type
Book Contribution
Description/Summary
Walter Rankin is a contributing author, "Fairy Goth-Mothers: Maternal Wish Fulfillment in Kate Morton's The Forgotten Garden," Chapter 20.
Selected by a poll of more than 180 Gothic specialists (creative writers, professors, critics, and Gothic Studies program developers at universities), the fifty-three original works discussed in 21st-Century Gothic represent the most impressive Gothic novels written around the world between 2000-2010. The essays in this volume discuss the merits of these novels, highlighting the influences and key components that make them worthy of inclusion.
Many of the pioneer voices of Gothic Studies, as well as other key critics of the field, have all contributed new essays to this volume, including David Punter, Jerrold Hogle, Karen F. Stein, Marie Mulvey-Roberts, Mary Ellen Snodgrass, Tony Magistrale, Don D'Ammassa, Mavis Haut, Walter Rankin, James Doig, Laurence A. Rickels, Douglass H. Thomson, Sue Zlosnik, Carol Margaret Davision, Ruth Bienstock Anolik, Glennis Byron, Judith Wilt, Bernice Murphy, Darrell Schweitzer, and June Pulliam. The guide includes a preface by one of the world's leading authorities on the weird and fantastic, S. T. Joshi.
Sharing their knowledge of how traditional Gothic elements and tensions surface in a changed way within a contemporary novel, the contributors enhance the reader's dark enjoyment, emotional involvement, and appreciation of these works. These essays show not only how each of these novels are Gothic but also how they advance or change Gothicism, making the works both irresistible for readers and establishing their place in the Gothic canon.
ISBN
9780810877283
Publication Date
12-2010
Publication Information
Rankin, Walter. “Fairy Goth-Mothers: Maternal Wish Fulfillment in Kate Morton's The Forgotten Garden,” in 21st-Century Gothic: Great Gothic Novels since 2000. Ed. Danel Olson. Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press, 2011. 215-225.
Recommended Citation
Olson, Danel and Rankin, Walter, "21st-Century Gothic: Great Gothic Novels Since 2000" (2010). Modern Languages & Literature Faculty Book Gallery. 25.
https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/modernlanguagesandliterature-books/25
Comments
Copyright 2011 Danel Olson