Post-Millennial Gothic

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Comedy, Romance and the Rise of Happy Gothic

AvCatherine Spooner

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

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Surveying the widespread appropriations of the Gothic in contemporary literature and culture, Post-Millennial Gothic shows contemporary Gothic is often romantic, funny and celebratory. Reading a wide range of popular texts, from Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series through Tim Burton's Gothic film adaptations of Sweeney Todd, Alice in Wonderland and Dark Shadows, to the appearance of Gothic in fashion, advertising and television, Catherine Spooner argues that conventional academic and media accounts of Gothic culture have overlooked this celebratory strain of 'Happy Gothic'. Identifying a shift in subcultural sensibilities following media coverage of the Columbine shootings, Spooner suggests that changing perceptions of Goth subculture have shaped the development of 21st-century Gothic. Reading these contemporary trends back into their sources, Spooner also explores how they serve to highlight previously neglected strands of comedy and romance in earlier Gothic literature.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-02-23
Mått:154 x 234 x 16 mm
Vikt:360 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:232
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781441101211

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Catherine Spooner is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Lancaster University, UK. She is co-editor (with Emma McEvoy) of The Routledge Companion to Gothic (2007) and author of Contemporary Gothic (2006) and Fashioning Gothic Bodies (2004).

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The range of sources that Spooner uses to uncover this strand of Gothic and the work it’s doing in the twenty-first century is as impressive as the primary texts that she explores throughout the book.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction 1. Consuming the Edible Graveyard: Gothic Lifestyles and Lifestyle Gothic 2. 'The images, for me, are the story': Tim Burton's Gothic Aesthetics 3. 'Forget Nu Rave, We're Into Nu Grave!': High Street Style and the uses of Gothic Romance4. Gothic Charm School, or, How Vampires Learned to Sparkle5. Pretty in Black: The Goth Girl and the Whimsical Macabre6. 'Happy Nights Are Here Again': Having a Laugh with Vampires and Other Monsters7. 'I'm the Shoreditch Vampire': Making Over Goth Masculinities in Television Comedy8. 'Swishing about and spookiness': Whitby and Gothic Literary Tourism from Bram Stoker's Dracula to Paul Magrs's Never the BrideConclusion: Gothic CelebrationsWorks citedIndex