The thoroughly expanded and updated New Companion to the Gothic, provides a series of stimulating insights into Gothic writing, its history and genealogy. The addition of 12 new essays and a section on ?Global Gothic? reflects the direction Gothic criticism has taken over the last decade.

• Many of the original essays have been revised to reflect current debates
• Offers comprehensive coverage of criticism of the Gothic and of the various theoretical approaches it has inspired and spawned
• Features important and original essays by leading scholars in the field
• The editor is widely recognized as the founder of modern criticism of the Gothic