Neo-Gothic Narratives
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Neo-Gothic Narratives

Illusory Allusions from the Past

  1. 204 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Neo-Gothic Narratives

Illusory Allusions from the Past

About this book

Neo-Gothic Narratives defines and theorises what, exactly, qualifies as such a text, what mobilises the employment of the Gothic to speak to our own times, whether nostalgia plays a role and whether there is room for humour besides the sobriety and horror in these narratives across various media. What attracts us to the Gothic that makes us want to resurrect, reinvent, echo it? Why do we let the Gothic redefine us? Why do we let it haunt us? Does it speak to us through intertexuality, self-reflectivity, metafiction, immersion, affect? Are we reclaiming the history of women and other subalterns in the Gothic that had been denied in other forms of history? Are we revisiting the trauma of English colonisation and seeking national identity? Or are we simply tourists who enjoy cruising through the otherworld? The essays in this volume investigate both the readerly experience of Neo-Gothic narratives as well as their writerly pastiche.

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Yes, you can access Neo-Gothic Narratives by Sarah E. Maier,Brenda Ayres in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Literatura & Crítica literaria gótica, romántica y de terror. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Introduction: Neo-Gothicism: Persistent Haunting of the Past and Horrors Anew
  9. Chapter One “Through A Glass Darkly”: the Gothic trace
  10. Chapter Two Dark Descen(den)ts: Neo-Gothic Monstrosity and the Women of Frankenstein
  11. Chapter Three Theorising Race, Slavery and the New Imperial Gothic in Neo-Victorian Returns to Wuthering Heights
  12. Chapter Four Toxic Neo-Gothic Masculinity: Mr. Hyde, Tyler Durden and Donald J. Trump as Angry White Men
  13. Chapter Five Shadows of the Vampire: neo-gothicism in dracula, ripper street and what we do in the shadows
  14. Chapter Six “HERE WE ARE, AGAIN!”: NEO-GOTHIC NARRATIVES OF TEXTUAL HAUNTING, FROM PETER ACKROYD’S DAN LENO AND THE LIMEHOUSE GOLEM TO THE LIMEHOUSE GOLEM
  15. Chapter Seven Spectral Females, Spectral Males: Coloniality and Gender in Neo-Gothic Australian novels
  16. Chapter Eight “We Are All Humans”: Self-Aware Zombies and Neo-Gothic Posthumanism
  17. Chapter Nine Neo-Gothic Dinosaurs and the Haunting of History
  18. Chapter Ten Doctor Who’s Shaken Faith in Science: MISTRUSTING Science from the Gothic to the Neo-Gothic
  19. Chapter Eleven The Devil’s In it: The Bible As gothic
  20. Notes on Contributors
  21. Index