The Gothic: A Reader

ISBN-13: 9781787072688 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 264 str.

Simon Bacon

Opis

What is the Gothic? This volume offers a new look at the world of the Gothic, from its origins in the eighteenth century to its reemergence today. Invaluable for students, teachers and fans alike, the volume's accessible style allows for an engaging look at the spectral and uncanny nature of the Gothic.

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CONTENTS: Justin Sausman - Arthur Machen's The Three Impostors (1895) - Victorian Gothic - Johan Höglund: Richard Marsh's The Joss: A Reversion (1901) - Imperial Gothic - Tabish Khair: Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) - Postcolonial Gothic - Steffen Hantke: Bill Condon's Gods and Monsters (1998) - War Gothic - James Peacock: Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland; or The Transformation (1798) - Transatlantic Gothic - Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet: Robert Bloch's American Gothic (1974) - American Gothic - Timothy Jones: Clarence John Laughlin's Ghosts Along the Mississippi (1948) - Southern Gothic - Maisha L. Wester: Brandon Massey's Dark Corner (2004) - African American Gothic - Sarah Juliet Lauro: Ron Honthaner's The House on Skull Mountain (1974) - Zombie Gothic - Enrique Ajuria Ibarra/Luis Daniel Martínez Álvarez: Caifanes (1987-Present) - Mexican Gothic - Ashleigh Prosser: Joan Lindsay's Picnic at Hanging Rock (1967/1975) - Australian Gothic - Katarzyna Ancuta: Otsuichi's Goth (2002) - Japanese Gothic - Claire Nally: Whitby Goth Weekend (1994-Present) - Gothic Subcultures - Tracy Fahey: Aideen Barry's Possession (2011) - Suburban/Domestic Gothic - Max Fincher: Matthew Lewis's The Monk (1796) - Queer Gothic - Kathleen Hudson: Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) - Female Gothic - Gina Wisker: Sarah Waters's The Paying Guests (2014) - Postfeminist Gothic - Maria Beville: A. S. Byatt's 'The Dried Witch' (1987) - Postmodern Gothic - Peter N. Lindfield: Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill House (1749) - Architectural Gothic - Julia Round: Grant Morrison, Dave McKean, and Gaspar Saladino's Arkham Asylum (1989) - Gothic Comics - Xavier Aldana Reyes: Guillermo del Toro's Crimson Peak (2015) - Gothic Film - Emily Flynn-Jones: Tale of Tales's The Path (2009) - Gaming and the Gothic - Lorna Piatti-Farnell: Cormac McCarthy's The Road (2006) - Food Gothic - Linnie Blake: Max Brooks's World War Z (2006) - Neoliberal Gothic - Sara Wasson: China Miéville's Perdido Street Station (2000) - Gothic Literary Science Fiction - Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock: Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation (2014) - Gothic and the New Weird - Elana Gomel: Koji Suzuki's Edge (2012) - Quantum Gothic - Simon Bacon: Alex Garland's Ex Machina (2015) - Vampire Gothic.

O autorze

Simon Bacon has published many articles on vampires, zombies and monsters in popular culture and science fiction and has co-edited books on various subjects, including Undead Memory: Vampires and Human Memory in Popular Culture (2014), Little Horrors: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Anomalous Children and the Construction of Monstrosity (2016) and To Boldly Go: Gender and Identity in the Star Trek Franchise (2017). His first monograph, Becoming Vampire: Difference and the Vampire in Popular Culture, came out in 2016. He is currently working on his second book, The Undead Self: Troubled and Troubling Identities in Screen Adaptations of Bram Stoker's 'Dracula'.