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This Companion explores the many ways in which the Gothic has dispersed in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and in particular how it has come to offer a focus for the tensions inherent in modernity. Fourteen essays by world-class experts show how the Gothic in numerous forms - including literature, film, television, and cyberspace - helps audiences both to distance themselves from and to deal with some of the key underlying problems of modern life. Topics discussed include the norms and shifting boundaries of sex and gender, the explosion of different forms of media and technology, the mixture of cultures across the western world, the problem of identity for the modern individual, what people continue to see as evil, and the very nature of modernity. Also including a chronology and guide to further reading, this volume offers a comprehensive account of the importance of Gothic to modern life and thought.

• Offers a new and comprehensive account of the importance of the Gothic in exploring essential questions of modern life
• Explores the Gothic across a range of contemporary forms including film, TV and cyberspace, right up to the present day
• Discusses the major underlying struggles in modern life over sex and gender, the intermixing of different culture worldwide, and the very nature of modernity