A book of monsters
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A book of monsters

Promethean horror in modern literature and culture

  1. 248 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

A book of monsters

Promethean horror in modern literature and culture

About this book

This books traces the rise to prominence in the twentieth-century of a sub-genre of gothic fiction that is, emphatically, a horror of enlightenment rationality rather than gothic darkness, examining post-modern revisions of Modernist "Promethean" tropes in an eclectic range of gothic, fantasy and SF writing. Whether the subject be terror of London's churches in the psychogeographical fiction of Iain Sinclair and Alan Moore, the Orcs in the linguistic fantasies of J.R.R. Tolkien, King Kong, killer-computers, or demon-children in post-war British science-fiction, A Book of Monsters offers illuminating perspectives on the darker recesses of the post-modern imagination, setting out a compelling, and comprehensive, overview on our contemporary unconscious.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of figures
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. 1 The modern Prometheus: A brief introduction to the horror of Enlightenment
  10. 2 Architects of the occult: London’s alternative “gothic” tradition
  11. 3 Gorillas in the House of Light: Inter-war Modernism as crisis management at London Zoo
  12. 4 Orc-talk: Spectres of Marx in Tolkien’s Middle-Earth
  13. 5 Pandora’s box: The insidious appeal of the Brutalist dystopia
  14. 6 The Mechanical Turk: Enduring misapprehensions concerning artificial intelligence
  15. 7 The Promethean altar: Prospects of atonement in twenty-first-century science fiction
  16. Select bibliography
  17. Index