Dementieva Alisa Vladislavovna – Junior Researcher at the Department of Literary studies, Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences; ORCID: 0000–0002–7559–5569
The review article examines the collective monograph Scottish Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion (2017), in which contemporary international scholars trace the development of the Gothic tradition in Scottish literature over several centuries. Particular attention is paid to the specificity of the chronotope and the dominant motifs of Scottish Gothic, with their literary, historical, and cultural preconditions being elucidated. The authors of the monograph demonstrate how spatial topoi (loci) shape narrative time, character construction, and plot logic, and they trace the evolution of the chronotope across different literary forms and historical periods. The article offers a detailed analysis of the functioning of characteristic Gothic topoi in Scottish literature and cinema, including cemeteries, ruins, prisons, religious and industrial spaces, “historical” landscapes, as well as rural and urban locations. Special attention is given to intertextual loci that refer to earlier works, as well as to the specific organization of space in parodic Gothic literature.
gothic literature; romanticism; topos; chronotope; European literature of the XVIII–XXI centuries; Scotland; images and motifs; diachrony