The Cambridge Companion to World-Gothic Literature

Before gothic villains stalked industrialising Britain, spectres were haunting British plantations in the 'New World'. Linking these monsters, this Companion upends gothic's Eurocentric origin story, revealing world-gothic as a cultural archive of modernity's socio-ecological violence, from the era of enslavement to the present planetary emergency. Before gothic villains stalked industrialising Britain, spectres were haunting British plantations in the 'New World'. Linking these monsters, this Companion upends gothic's Eurocentric origin story, revealing world-gothic as a cultural archive of modernity's socio-ecological violence, from the era of enslavement to the present planetary emergency.