Horror in the Age of Steam: Tales of Terror in the Victorian Age of Transitions

ISBN-13: 9780367858582 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 266 str.

Carroll Clayton Savant

Opis

Faced with scientific innovation and industrial advancement, Victorians sought new ways to deal with their new moment in history. Many turned to artistic movements of the past; there were authors, however, who created new forms of storytelling, the horror story, to illustrate the terrors of an age in transition.

O autorze

Carroll Clayton Savant holds a PhD in literary studies from the University of Texas at Dallas. He is an Associate Professor of English and teaches literature, composition, and humanities at Tarrant County College, where he has created classes on horror, science fiction, dystopian realities, and the voices of minority cultures. Savant has written and published extensively on the relationship between music and literature in Victorian society, primarily through the works of George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, and George Gissing. His scholarship has appeared in The Victorian, The Victorian Web, and through the San Francisco State University Press and Salem Press. He is an academically trained musicologist with a background as a concert pianist and orchestral musician. His current research interests include the work of the Brownings, the history of the novel, and studying Steampunk cultures.