Haunted Europe: Continental Connections in English-Language Gothic Writing, Film and New Media(Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature)

Haunted Europe offers the first comprehensive account of the British and Irish fascination with a Gothic vision of continental Europe, tracing its effect on British intellectual life from the birth of the Gothic novel, to the eve of Brexit, and the symbolic recalibration of the UK’s relationship to mainland Europe. By focusing on the development of the relationship between Britain and Ireland and continental Europe over more than two-hundred years, this collection marks an important departure from standard literary critical narratives, which have tended to focus on a narrow time-period and have missed continuities and discontinuities in our ongoing relationship with the mainland.

Table of Contents:
Introduction 1. ‘Seeing Ghosts: the Dark Side of the Enlightenment’ 2. ‘"God! ‘Tis the Bleeding Nun!": Religion, Sexuality and the European Other in Matthew Lewis’s The Monk (1796)’ 3. ‘Haunting at sea: defining Britishness in encounters with the Flying Dutchman’ 4. ‘Walking Abroad: Strange Exhibitions in M. R. James’ 5. ‘Haunted Hotels’ 6. ‘Gothic battlefields: Imagining the European theatre of war before and after World War I’ 7. ‘Daphne DuMaurier’s Gothic Italy’ 8. ‘The island seemed to answer so many problems’: Robert Aickman and the English Abroad 9. "Dennis Wheatley’s Satanic Continent in Fiction and Film" 10. ‘This Lonely and Primitive Place:’ The Visualization of Eastern Europe in the Web Series, Carmilla’ 11. ‘Losing Our Heads (European Edition)’ 12. ‘Haunted by the Ottomans: Imperial Gothic and the Image of ‘the Barbar-Turk’ in Dracula Narratives’ 13. An Interview with Leslie Megahey on the BBC ghost-film, Schalcken the Painter (1979)

About the Author :
Evert Jan van Leeuwen (Leiden University, the Netherlands) is author of House of Usher (Auteur Press 2019), co-editor of The Literary Utopias of Cultural Communities (Rodopi 2010), and has published articles in the Journal Eighteenth-Century Studies, the Nathaniel Hawthorne Review, and Studies in Gothic Fiction, amongst others. Michael Newton (Leiden University, the Netherlands) is the author of the cultural histories, Savage Girls and Wild Boys and Age of Assassins, and of two BFI Film Classics books, on Kind Hearts and Coronets and Rosemary’s Baby, and also Show People: A History of the Film Star.