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Contemporary Body Horror
Häftad, 2024
300 kr
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'Body horror', a horror subgenre concerned with transformation, loss of control and the human body's susceptibility to disease, infection and external harm, has moved into the mainstream to become one of the greatest repositories of biopolitical discourse. Put simply, body horror acts out the power …
The Eternal Wanderer
Christian Negotiations in the Gothic Mode
Av Mary Going
Häftad, 2025
354 kr
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The Eternal Wanderer: Christian Negotiations in the Gothic Mode provides new ways of reading the Gothicisation of the Wandering Jew. It argues that early Gothic writing conjured iterations of this figure that reimagine and revise him, adding Gothic layers to a popular Christian myth that refuses to …
Mary Robinson and the Gothic
Häftad, 2023
324 kr
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Celebrated as an actress on the London stage (1776-80) and notorious as the mistress of the Prince of Wales (1779-80), Mary Darby Robinson had to write to support herself from the mid-1780s until her death in 1800. She mastered a wide range of styles, published prolifically, and became the poetry …
Folk Gothic
Av Dawn Keetley
Häftad, 2024
308 kr
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Folk Gothic begins with the assertion that a significant part of what has been categorised as folk horror is more accurately and usefully labelled as Folk Gothic. Through the modifier 'folk', Folk Gothic obviously shares with folk horror its deployment (and frequent fabrication) of diegetic …
African American Gothic in the Era of Black Lives Matter
Häftad, 2025
327 kr
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This Element explores twenty-first century Black Gothic literature and film as it responds to American anti-Blackness and as they illustrate a mode of Black Gothic fiction termed Black Lives Matter (BLM) Gothic. The various texts express frustration, rage, and sorrow over the failures of previous …
Gothic Voices
The Vococentric Soundworld of Gothic Writing
Av Matt Foley
Häftad, 2023
354 kr
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This Element provides new ways of reading the soundscape of the Gothic text. Drawing inspiration from the field of 'sonic Gothic' studies, which has been spearheaded by the writings of Isabella van Elferen, as well as from Mladen Dolar's articulation of the psychoanalytic 'object' voice, this study …
The Music of the Gothic 1789-1820
Av Emma McEvoy
Häftad, 2025
354 kr
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Music plays an essential role in Gothic in the years 1789-1820, but it signifies very differently at the end of the period compared with the beginning. In the 1790s, the music of Gothic novels and plays is not Gothic music; it is celebratory, calming or transcendent rather than scary. By 1820, the …
Monsters
Av Fred Botting
Häftad, 2026
282 kr
Kommande
Monsters presents a critical, historical and theoretical account of monstrosity in fiction, politics and science from the eighteenth century to the present. It outlines distinctive features of monsters and details their changing and complex significance, role and effect in analyses of key Gothic …
Democracy and the American Gothic
Häftad, 2024
282 kr
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While the political undercurrent of the American Gothic has been firmly established, few scholars have surveyed the genre's ambivalent relationship to democracy. The American Gothic routinely undercuts centralised authority by exposing the dark underbelly of the status quo; at the same time, the …
Dickens and the Gothic
Av Andrew Smith
Häftad, 2024
354 kr
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Dickens and the Gothic provides a critical focus on representations of social and psychological entrapment which demonstrates how Dickens employs the Gothic to evaluate how institutions and formations of history impinge on the individual. An analysis of these forms of Gothic entrapment reveals how …
Disability and the Gothic
The Nineteenth Century
Häftad, 2026
302 kr
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Disability is central to the Gothic imagination. This Element draws together disability and Gothic literature in ways that show the interplay between them. The first chapter offers a brief history of Critical Disability Studies, and the manner in which Gothic has been integral to the evolution of …
The Last Man and Gothic Sympathy
Häftad, 2024
354 kr
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This Element explores the theme of 'Gothic sympathy' as it appears in a collection of 'Last Man' novels. A liminal site of both possibility and irreconcilability, Gothic sympathy at once challenges the anthropocentric bias of traditional notions of sympathetic concern, premising compassionate …
Coastal Gothic, 1719-2020
Häftad, 2026
324 kr
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Littoral zones such as haunted shorelines, oppressively expansive beaches, and the crumbling edgelands around coastal cliffs have been an indelible feature of the Gothic literary tradition since the eighteenth century. They are frequently portrayed as strange, interstitial realms, sites of …
Gothic Poland and British Fiction, c. 1790-1830
Av Jakub Lipski
Häftad, 2026
324 kr
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This Element demonstrates how Poland became a gothic setting in British fiction between the 1790s and the 1830s as a result of public interest in the partitions of Poland (1772-95) and their aftermath. It first discusses the ways Minerva gothics capitalised on the appeal of the Polish cause and …
Biography and the Trade-Gothic Author
The Case of Isabella Kelly
Av Yael Shapira
Häftad, 2025
300 kr
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This Element argues for the value of biography in studying trade Gothic - that is, Gothic novels published by unprestigious trade publishers during the Romantic period. As Section 1 argues, biography has been central to the study of canonical Gothic and, indeed, to the very formation of the Gothic …
Folk Gothic
Av Dawn Keetley
Inbunden, 2024
911 kr
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Folk Gothic begins with the assertion that a significant part of what has been categorised as folk horror is more accurately and usefully labelled as Folk Gothic. Through the modifier 'folk', Folk Gothic obviously shares with folk horror its deployment (and frequent fabrication) of diegetic …
The Last Man and Gothic Sympathy
Inbunden, 2024
1048 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This Element explores the theme of 'Gothic sympathy' as it appears in a collection of 'Last Man' novels. A liminal site of both possibility and irreconcilability, Gothic sympathy at once challenges the anthropocentric bias of traditional notions of sympathetic concern, premising compassionate …
The Eternal Wanderer
Christian Negotiations in the Gothic Mode
Av Mary Going
Inbunden, 2025
1048 kr
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The Eternal Wanderer: Christian Negotiations in the Gothic Mode provides new ways of reading the Gothicisation of the Wandering Jew. It argues that early Gothic writing conjured iterations of this figure that reimagine and revise him, adding Gothic layers to a popular Christian myth that refuses to …
The Music of the Gothic 1789-1820
Av Emma McEvoy
Inbunden, 2025
1048 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Music plays an essential role in Gothic in the years 1789-1820, but it signifies very differently at the end of the period compared with the beginning. In the 1790s, the music of Gothic novels and plays is not Gothic music; it is celebratory, calming or transcendent rather than scary. By 1820, the …
Dickens and the Gothic
Av Andrew Smith
Inbunden, 2024
1025 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Dickens and the Gothic provides a critical focus on representations of social and psychological entrapment which demonstrates how Dickens employs the Gothic to evaluate how institutions and formations of history impinge on the individual. An analysis of these forms of Gothic entrapment reveals how …
Democracy and the American Gothic
Inbunden, 2024
911 kr
Lägg i varukorg
While the political undercurrent of the American Gothic has been firmly established, few scholars have surveyed the genre's ambivalent relationship to democracy. The American Gothic routinely undercuts centralised authority by exposing the dark underbelly of the status quo; at the same time, the …
Coastal Gothic, 1719-2020
Inbunden, 2026
1048 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Littoral zones such as haunted shorelines, oppressively expansive beaches, and the crumbling edgelands around coastal cliffs have been an indelible feature of the Gothic literary tradition since the eighteenth century. They are frequently portrayed as strange, interstitial realms, sites of …
Gothic Poland and British Fiction, c. 1790-1830
Av Jakub Lipski
Inbunden, 2026
1048 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This Element demonstrates how Poland became a gothic setting in British fiction between the 1790s and the 1830s as a result of public interest in the partitions of Poland (1772-95) and their aftermath. It first discusses the ways Minerva gothics capitalised on the appeal of the Polish cause and …
Biography and the Trade-Gothic Author
The Case of Isabella Kelly
Av Yael Shapira
Inbunden, 2025
967 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This Element argues for the value of biography in studying trade Gothic - that is, Gothic novels published by unprestigious trade publishers during the Romantic period. As Section 1 argues, biography has been central to the study of canonical Gothic and, indeed, to the very formation of the Gothic …
Contemporary Body Horror
Inbunden, 2024
967 kr
Lägg i varukorg
'Body horror', a horror subgenre concerned with transformation, loss of control and the human body's susceptibility to disease, infection and external harm, has moved into the mainstream to become one of the greatest repositories of biopolitical discourse. Put simply, body horror acts out the power …
African American Gothic in the Era of Black Lives Matter
Inbunden, 2025
967 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This Element explores twenty-first century Black Gothic literature and film as it responds to American anti-Blackness and as they illustrate a mode of Black Gothic fiction termed Black Lives Matter (BLM) Gothic. The various texts express frustration, rage, and sorrow over the failures of previous …
Gothic Dementia
Troubled Minds in Gothic Timelines
Häftad, 2026
324 kr
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Gothic Dementia: Troubled Minds in Gothic Timelines introduces Gothic studies as a valuable lens through which to critically consider how we think about dementia. It argues that the Gothic's foundational narrative techniques can model approaches to similar dementia symptoms, such as chronological …
Gothic Dementia
Troubled Minds in Gothic Timelines
Inbunden, 2026
1025 kr
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Gothic Dementia: Troubled Minds in Gothic Timelines introduces Gothic studies as a valuable lens through which to critically consider how we think about dementia. It argues that the Gothic's foundational narrative techniques can model approaches to similar dementia symptoms, such as chronological …
Gothic Masculinities in the Victorian Age
Av Ruth Heholt, Mariaconcetta Costantini
Inbunden, 2026
911 kr
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Gothic Masculinities in the Victorian Age explores masculinity and the Gothic in the literature of the long nineteenth century. In recent criticism masculinity in the Gothic is most usually discussed as being fractured, unstable, and threatened. Gothic Masculinities examines this fragmentation of …
Gothic Masculinities in the Victorian Age
Av Ruth Heholt, Mariaconcetta Costantini
Häftad, 2026
308 kr
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Gothic Masculinities in the Victorian Age explores masculinity and the Gothic in the literature of the long nineteenth century. In recent criticism masculinity in the Gothic is most usually discussed as being fractured, unstable, and threatened. Gothic Masculinities examines this fragmentation of …
