Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction: Gothic Modernisms: History, Culture and Aesthetics; A.Smith & J.Wallace Hungry Ghosts and Foreign Bodies; D.Punter 'The Spectrality Effect' in Early Modernism; D.Glover 'Physical Cases: Transformations of the Supernatural in Virginia Woolf and May Sinclair; D.Seed The Ghost and the Omnibus: the Gothic Virginia Woolf; J.Wilt Strolling in the Dark: Gothic Flânerie in Djuna Barnes's Nightwood ?; A.Horner & S.Zlosnik 'Thick Within Our Hair': Djuna Barnes's Gothic Lovers; D.Tyler-Bennett 'The Stern Task of Living': Dubliners , Clerks, Money and Modernism; J.Wallace The Modernist Abominations of William Hope Hodgson; K.Hurley Vampirism, Masculinity and Degeneracy: D.H. Lawrence's Modernist Gothic; A.Smith Arctic Masks in a Castle of Ice: Gothic Vorticism and Wyndham Lewis's Self Condemned ; F.Orestano Metropolis and the Modernist Gothic; N.Morris Hollywood Gothic/Gothic Hollywood: The Example of Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard ; J.Wolfreys Index

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ANDREW SMITH is Senior Lecturer in English Studies at the University of Glamorgan. He is the author of Gothic Radicalism: Literature, Philosophy and Psychoanalysis in the Nineteenth Century and co-edited (with William Hughes) Bram Stoker: History, Psychoanalysis and the Gothic. - JEFF WALLACE is Senior Lecturer in English Studies at the University of Glamorgan. He has co-edited (with David Amigoni) Charles Darwin's Origin of the Species: New Interdisciplinary Essays and (with Rod Jones and Sophie Nield) Raymond Williams Now: Knowledge, Limits and the Future.