Text Matters No. 6 (2016)

Issue 6 of Text Matters, entitled Gothic Matters and edited by Professor Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet (University of Lausanne), is a collection of essays that explore the relevance of the Gothic genre (and Gothic studies as such) in the first decades of the 21st century. Apart from the informative editorial, the main section contains thirteen scholarly texts that address topics as diverse as the reading of The Monk by M. G. Lewis and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein through the lens of the French Revolution, the EcoGothic analysis of Margaret Fuller’s Summer on the Lakes, the notion of Imperial Gothic, the filmic representations of (dismembered) hands, the Gothic in postcolonial writing in the Philippines and the American pastoral tradition, the close ties between the Gothic, globalization and economic crisis (as aptly illustrated by Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, as well as two films: Take Shelter and Winter’s Bone), gender and genre hybridity in the Supernatural series, vampires (in American Indian myths and in Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive), and, finally, the juxtaposition of zombies with the Big Pharma. The volume also includes three texts gathered in the section appropriately named Intersections. They discuss the images of Trebizond and the Pontos in contemporary literature in English, allusions to Henryk Sienkiewicz’s short story “The Lighthouse Keeper of Aspinwall” in “Through the Panama” by Malcolm Lowry, and liminality in Tony Harrison’s poetry. The concluding section consists of three reviews (of Ann Radcliffe, Romanticism and the Gothic, edited by Dale Townshend and Angela Wright; Charles I. Armstrong’s Reframing Yeats: Genre, Allusion and History; and Anna Pochmara’s The Making of the New Negro: Black Authorship, Masculinity, and Sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance) and two interviews (with Bill Gaston and Uilleam Blacker).

Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet (University of Lausanne, Switzerland) Gothic Matters: Introduction Agnieszka Łowczanin (University of Łódź) The Monk by M. G. Lewis: Revolution, Religion and the Female Body Kristen Lacefield (Texas Christian University) Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the Guillotine, and Modern Ontological Anxiety Monika Elbert (Montclair State University) Haunting Transcendentalist Landscapes: EcoGothic Politics in Margaret Fuller’s Summer on the Lakes Karen E. Macfarlane (Mount Saint Vincent University) Here Be Monsters: Imperialism, Knowledge and the Limits of Empire Neil Forsyth (University of Lausanne) The Tell-Tale Hand: Gothic Narratives and the Brain Marie Rose B. Arong (University of the Philippines Cebu) University of New South Wales) Nick Joaquin’s Cándido’s Apocalypse: Re-imagining the Gothic in a Postcolonial Philippines John Armstrong (National Formosa University, Taiwan) Gothic Matters of De-Composition: The Pastoral Dead in Contemporary American Fiction Marie Liénard-Yeterian (Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, France) Gothic Trouble: Cormac McCarthy’s The Road and the Globalized Order Glen Donnar (RMIT University) “It’s not just a dream. There is a storm coming!”: Financial Crisis, Masculine Anxieties and Vulnerable Homes in American Film Agata Łuksza (University of Warsaw) Boy Melodrama: Genre Negotiations and Gender-Bending in the Supernatural Series Corinna Lenhardt (University of Münster) Wendigos, Eye Killers, Skinwalkers: The Myth of the American Indian Vampire and American Indian “Vampire” Myths Justyna Stępień (Szczecin University) Transgression of Postindustrial Dissonance and Excess: (Re)valuation of Gothicism in Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive Barry Murnane (University of Oxford) In the Flesh and the Gothic Pharmacology of Everyday Life; or Into and Out of the Gothic INTERSECTIONS Małgorzata Dąbrowska (University of Łódź) Images of Trebizond and the Pontos in Contemporary Literature in English with a Gothic Conclusion Dorota Filipczak (University of Łódź) Intertextual Illuminations: “The Lighthouse Keeper of Aspinwall” by Henryk Sienkiewicz in Malcolm Lowry’s “Through the Panama” Agata G. Handley (University of Łódź) On (Not) Being Milton: Tony Harrison’s Liminal Voice REVIEWS AND INTERVIEWS Tomasz Fisiak (University of Łódź) Timeless Radcliffe: A Review of Ann Radcliffe, Romanticism and the Gothic Wit Pietrzak (University of Łódź) Yeats’s Genres and Tensions: A Review of Charles I. Armstrong’s Reframing Yeats: Genre, Allusion and History Antoni Górny (University of Warsaw) Review of Anna Pochmara’s The Making of the New Negro: Black Authorship, Masculinity, and Sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance “Artful Exaggeration” Krzysztof Majer (University of Łódź) Interviews Bill Gaston Transcultural Theatre in the UK Uilleam Blacker Talks to Joanna Kosmalska (University of Łódź) Contributors