Post-Millennial Gothic: Comedy, Romance and the Rise of Happy Gothic (Paperback)

Introduction 1. Consuming the Edible Graveyard: Gothic Lifestyles and Lifestyle Gothic 2. 'The images, for me, are the story': Tim Burton's Gothic Aesthetics 3. 'Forget Nu Rave, We're Into Nu Grave!': High Street Style and the uses of Gothic Romance 4. Gothic Charm School, or, How Vampires Learned to Sparkle 5. Pretty in Black: The Goth Girl and the Whimsical Macabre 6. 'Happy Nights Are Here Again': Having a Laugh with Vampires and Other Monsters 7. 'I'm the Shoreditch Vampire': Making Over Goth Masculinities in Television Comedy 8. 'Swishing about and spookiness': Whitby and Gothic Literary Tourism from Bram Stoker's Dracula to Paul Magrs's Never the Bride Conclusion: Gothic Celebrations Works cited Index