Italian Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion

by Marco Malvestio (Editor), Stefano Serafini (Editor)

This companion constitutes the first, systematic theorisation of the Italian Gothic. Through an interdisciplinary, trans-medial approach that encompasses prose fiction, poetry, journalism, film, music, and comics, it explores the varied and complex metamorphoses of the Gothic in Italy from the late eighteenth century to the present day. Although the last thirty years have seen a burgeoning in the academic study of the Gothic at college and university levels and in related publications, scholars have long struggled to even acknowledge the very existence of this mode in the Italian context. This companion does not only fill in a historical and critical gap in the scholarship, but it also contributes to revitalising the field of Gothic Studies, opening new channels of communication, and paving the way to the exploration of the fruitful interchanges between Italian and other European and American configurations of the Gothic.

264 pages, Hardcover

Published March 17, 2023

About the author

Marco Malvestio è nato nel 1991, ed è ricercatore in letterature comparate all’Università di Padova. Ha lavorato in Canada e negli Stati Uniti.

Ha pubblicato il saggio The Conflict Revisited. The Second World War and Post-Postmodern Fiction (Peter Lang, 2021) e Raccontare la fine del mondo. Fantascienza e Antropocene (nottetempo, 2021). Ha co-curato i volumi Italian Gothic. An Edinburgh Companion (EUP) e Italian Science Fiction and the Environmental Humanities (LUP).

Come romanziere, nel 2021 ha pubblicato Annette (Wojtek Edizioni). Nella primavera del 2024 ha pubblicato La scrittrice nel buio (Voland).