Brave New Schools: Challenging Cultural Illiteracy through Global Learning Networks

Notes on the Contributors Introduction: D.Punter PART ONE: THEORY: REGIONS OF THE GOTHIC The Gothic Production of the Unconscious F.Botting Ceremonial Gothic D.Puntert The Nurture of the Gothic, or, How Can a Text be Both Popular and Subversive? W.Veeder PART TWO: HEARTLANDS: THE BRITISH NINETEENTH CENTURY Lost Cities: London's Apocalypse A.Warwick Hell is a City: Symbolic Systems and Epistemological Scepticism in The City of Dreadful Night D.Seed 'A Pestilence Which Walketh in Darkness': Diagnosing the Victorian Vampire R.Mighall PART THREE: AMERICA: STATES OF INSTABILITY American Gothic Landscapes: The New World to Vietnam J.Idiart & J.Schulz Gothic Numbers in the New Republic: The Federalist No. 10 and its Spectral Factions H.F. Thompson Spectres of Abjection: The Queer Subject of James's 'The Jolly Corner' E.Savoy PART FOUR: EUROPE: DIMENSIONS OF THE BODY The Gothic and 'Otherings' of Ascendant Culture: The Original Phantom of the Opera J.Hogle Heiner Muller's Medea: Towards a Paradigm for the Contemporary Gothic Anatomy B.Turner PART FIVE: (RE)VERSIONS Deaths in Venice: Daphne du Maurier's 'Don't Look Now' A.Horner & S.Zlosnik Dr McGrath's Disease: Radical Pathology in Patrick McGrath's Neo-Gothicism C.Ferguson Index