Technologies of the Gothic in Literature and Culture
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Technologies of the Gothic in Literature and Culture

Technogothics

  1. 198 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Technologies of the Gothic in Literature and Culture

Technogothics

About this book

This volume, a collection with contributions from some of the major scholars of the Gothic in literature and culture, reflects on how recent Gothic studies have foregrounded a plethora of technologies associated with Gothic literary and cultural production. The engaging essays look into the links between technologies and the proliferation of the Gothic seen in an excess of Gothic texts and tropes: Frankensteinesque experiments, the manufacture of synthetic (true?) blood, Moreauesque hybrids, the power of the Borg, Dr Jekyll's chemical experimentations, the machinery of Steampunk, or the corporeal modifications of Edward Scissorhands. Further, they explore how techno-science has contributed to the proliferation of the Gothic: Gothic in social media, digital technologies, the on-line gaming and virtual Goth/ic communities, the special effects of Gothic-horror cinema. Contributors address how Gothic technologies have, in a general sense, produced and perpetuated ideologies and influenced the politics of cultural practice, asking significant questions: How has the technology of the Gothic contributed to the writing of self and other? How have Gothic technologies been gendered, sexualized, encrypted, coded or de-coded? How has the Gothic manifested itself in new technologies across diverse geographical locations? This volume explores how Gothic technologies textualize identities and construct communities within a complex network of power relations in local, national, transnational, and global contexts. It will be of interest to scholars of the literary Gothic, extending beyond to include fascinating interventions into the areas of cultural studies, popular culture, science fiction, film, and TV.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Introduction: Technogothics
  8. 1 Technospectrality: Essay on Uncannimedia
  9. 2 Gothic Fiction and the Evolution of Media Technology
  10. 3 Eerie Technologies and Gothic Acoustemology
  11. 4 Sonic Media And Spectral Loops
  12. 5 Braaiinnsss!: Zombie-Technology, Play and Sound
  13. 6 Biomedical Horror: The New Death and the New Undead
  14. 7 Recalcitrant Tissue: Cadaveric Organ Transplant and the Struggle for Narrative Control
  15. 8 George Best’s Dead Livers: Transplanting the Gothic into Biotechnology and Medicine
  16. 9 Nanodead: The Technologies of Death in Ian McDonald’s Necroville
  17. 10 Staging the Extraordinary Body: Masquerading Disability in Patrick McGrath’s Martha Peake
  18. 11 Text as Gothic Murder Machine: The Cannibalism of Sawney Bean and Sweeney Todd
  19. 12 Neoliberal Adventures in Neo-Victorian Biopolitics: Mark Hodder’s Burton and Swinburne Novels
  20. 13 Language Will Eat Your Brain
  21. Contributors
  22. Index