War Gothic in Literature and Culture

This interdisciplinary collection explores the rich and long-standing relationship between war and the Gothic. From the American Civil War to the War on Terror, it examines how the Gothic has provided writers a toolbox for narrating, critiquing, and representing real and fictional wars. The book sheds light on the overlap and complicity between Gothic aesthetics and aspects of military experience including the bodily violation and mental dissolution of combat, masculinity in crisis, and the subjective experience of trauma and memory. Engaging with YA literature, gaming, comic books, literature, film, and visual art, it makes a timely contribution to Gothic Studies and War Literature.