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Sinister histories : Gothic novels and representations of the past, from Horace Walpole to Mary Wollstonecraft
Showing how the Gothic can be read as a complex reaction to Enlightenment methods of historical representation, Sinister histories uncovers hitherto neglected relationships between Gothic texts and prominent works of eighteenth-century history.
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Dangerous bodies
Through an investigation of the body and its oppression by the church, the medical profession and the state, this book reveals the actual horrors lying beneath fictional horror in settings as diverse as the monastic community, slave plantation, operating theatre, Jewish ghetto and battlefield trench. The book provides original readings of canonical Gothic literary and film texts including The Castle of Otranto, The Monk, Frankenstein, Dracula and Nosferatu. This collection of fictionalised dangerous bodies is traced back to the effects of the English Reformation, Spanish Inquisition, French Revolution, Caribbean slavery, Victorian medical malpractice, European anti-Semitism and finally warfare, ranging from the Crimean up to the Vietnam War. The endangered or dangerous body lies at the centre of the clash between victim and persecutor and has generated tales of terror and narratives of horror, which function to either salve, purge or dangerously perpetuate such oppositions. This ground-breaking book will be of interest to academics and students of Gothic studies, gender and film studies and especially to readers interested in the relationship between history and literature.
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The Gothic and death
The Gothic and death offers the first ever published study
devoted to the subject of the Gothic and death across the
centuries. It investigates how the multifarious strands of the
Gothic and the concepts of death, dying, mourning and
memorialisation ('the Death Question') - have intersected and been
configured cross-culturally to diverse ends from the mid-eighteenth
century to the present day. Drawing on recent scholarship in such
fields as Gothic Studies, film theory, Women's and Gender Studies
and Thanatology Studies, this interdisciplinary collection of
fifteen essays by international scholars combines an attention to
socio-historical and cultural contexts with a rigorous close
reading of works, both classic and lesser known. This area of
enquiry is considered by way of such popular and uncanny figures as
corpses, ghosts, zombies and vampires, and across various cultural
and literary forms such as Graveyard Poetry, Romantic poetry,
Victorian literature, nineteenth-century Italian and Russian
literature, Anglo-American film and television, contemporary Young
Adult fiction and Bollywood film noir.
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Industrial Gothic
This volume carves out a new area of study, the 'industrial
Gothic', placing the genre in dialogue with the literature of the
Industrial Revolution. The book explores a significant subset of
transatlantic nineteenth-century literature that employs the
tropes, themes and rhetoric of the Gothic to portray the real-life
horrors of factory life, framing the Industrial Revolution as a
site of Gothic excess and horror. Using archival materials from the
nineteenth century, localised incidences of Gothic
industrialisation (in specific cities like Lowell and Manchester)
are considered alongside transnational connections and comparisons.
The author argues that stories about the real horrors of factory
life frequently employed the mode of the Gothic, while nineteenth
century writing in the genre (stories, novels, poems and stage
adaptations) began to use new settings - factories, mills, and
industrial cities - as backdrops for the horrors that once
populated Gothic castles.
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21st-century British gothic : the monstrous, spectral, and uncanny in contemporary fiction
\"In this innovative re-casting of the genre and its received canon, Emily Horton explores fictional investments in the Gothic within contemporary British literature, revealing how such concepts as the monstrous, spectral and uncanny work to illuminate the insecure, uneven and precarious experience of 21st century life. Reading contemporary works of Gothic fiction by Helen Oyeyemi, Kazuo Ishiguro, Sarah Moss, Patrick McGrath and M.R. Carey alongside writers not previously grouped under this umbrella, such as Brian Chikwava, Chloe Aridjis and Mohsin Hamid, Horton illuminates the way the Gothic has been engaged and reread by these contemporary writers to address the many cultural anxieties invoked living under neocolonial and neoliberal governance, including terrorism, migration, homelessness, racism, and climate change. Marshalling new modes of diasporic and cross-disciplinary critical theory concerned with the violent dimensions of contemporary life, this book sets the Gothic aesthetics in such works as White is for Witching, Double Vision, Never Let Me Go, The Wasted Vigil and Ghost Wall against a backdrop of key events in the 21st century. Drawing connections between moments of anxiety, such as 9/11, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, ecological disaster, the refugee crisis, Brexit, the pandemic, and the Gothic, Horton demonstrates how British literature mediates transnational experiences of trauma and horror, while also addressing local and national insecurities and preoccupations. As a result, 21st century British Gothic can be seen to test geographical, psychological, cultural, and aesthetic borders, as it seeks to expose an often spectralised experience of human and planetary vulnerability, and as it speaks back against the brutality of global capitalism\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Women's Authorship and the Early Gothic
This collection examines Gothic fiction written by female authors in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Analysing works by lesser known authors within a historical context, the collection offers a fresh perspective on women writers and their contributions to Gothic literature.
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The female gothic : new directions
\"This rich and varied collection of essays makes a timely contribution to critical debates about the Female Gothic, a popular but contested area of literary studies. The contributors revisit key Gothic themes - gender, race, the body, monstrosity, metaphor, motherhood and nationality - to open up new critical directions\"--Provided by publisher.
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Twenty-First-Century Children’s Gothic
Academics, researchers and postgraduate students in Contemporary English Literature; Gothic Literature; Children's Literature; Youth and Childhood Studies; Contemporary Popular Culture; Critical Theory.
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