Continuing the University of Wales Press s acclaimed series of explorations of the Gothic and its legacy, "Twentieth-Century Gothic" focuses on the continuing presence of the gothic in the long twentieth century, from "The Turn of the Screw" to Sarah Waters s "The Little Stranger," with looks along the way at the work of Clive Barker, Angela Carter, Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, and more. Addressing the question of why we are fascinated by ghosts, demons, and monsters of all sorts, despite the professed rationality of our society, Armitt shows how such stories of these supernatural...
Continuing the University of Wales Press s acclaimed series of explorations of the Gothic and its legacy, "Twentieth-Century Gothic" focuses on the...
"Gothic Contemporaries "is the first study to align twenty-first-century fiction with a revised understanding of the Gothic. Through close readings of several twenty-first-century novels including "The Story of Lucy Gault "by William Trevor, "The Sea "by John Banville, "The Gathering "by Anne Enright, and others and drawing ideas from Jacques Derrida s later works, Joanne Watkiss demonstrates how contemporary fiction reworks the traditional ghost stories of the past. Among the numerous themes Watkins explores are the links between memory and haunting; the architectural function of...
"Gothic Contemporaries "is the first study to align twenty-first-century fiction with a revised understanding of the Gothic. Through close readings...
In "Queer Others in Victorian "Gothic, Ardel Haefele-Thomas examines a number of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Gothic novels, short stories, and films through the lens of queer cultural studies. In some of these works, as Haefele-Thomas demonstrates, the author or filmmaker fully intended to explore the complicated landscape of queer sexuality and gender identity.In most, however, the author or filmmaker s intentions are unclear.Haefele-Thomas takes on these works, first employing queer in its nineteenth-century historical context, to point to their generally weird, odd, or ill...
In "Queer Others in Victorian "Gothic, Ardel Haefele-Thomas examines a number of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Gothic novels, short stories, an...
This fascinating study examines the rise of fantastic and "frenetique" literature in Europe during the nineteenth century, introducing readers to lesser-known writers like Paul Feval and Charles Nodier, whose vampires, ghouls, and doppelgangers were every bit as convincing as those of the more famous Bram Stoker and Ann Radcliffe, but whose political motivations were far more serious. Matthew Gibson demonstrates how these writers used the conventions of the Gothic to attack both the French Revolution and the rise of materialism and positivism during the Enlightenment. At the same time, Gibson...
This fascinating study examines the rise of fantastic and "frenetique" literature in Europe during the nineteenth century, introducing readers to less...
Ever since horror became wildly popular in the 1970s, journalists have warned against the dangers of increasingly explicit forms of violent entertainment. Xavier Aldana Reyes takes a different stance in "Body Gothic," celebrating the transgressive qualities of this genre. Reyes considers relevant popular literary and filmic movements of the past three decades and reads them as updates in a long gothic tradition that goes back to the eighteenth century. "Body Gothic" contains case studies of key texts in splatterpunk, body horror, the new avant-pulp, the slaughterhouse novel, torture porn, and...
Ever since horror became wildly popular in the 1970s, journalists have warned against the dangers of increasingly explicit forms of violent entertainm...
