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Grotesque Modernist Body
Gothic Horror and Carnival Satire in Art and Writing
Inbunden, 2024
1322 kr
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The Grotesque Modernist Body explores how and why modernist authors drew on the traditions of the grotesque body in order to represent modern reality accurately. The author employs the concept of the grotesque body as a theoretical framework with which to examine rigorously a range of modernist …
American Horror Fiction and Class
From Poe to Twilight
Inbunden, 2017
879 kr
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In this book, Simmons argues that class, as much as race and gender, played a significant role in the development of Gothic and Horror fiction in a national context. From the classic texts of Edgar Allen Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne right through to contemporary examples, such as the novels of …
Sexuality and the Gothic Magic Lantern
Desire, Eroticism and Literary Visibilities from Byron to Bram Stoker
Av D. Jones
Inbunden, 2014
1638 kr
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This fascinating study explores the multifarious erotic themes associated with the magic lantern shows, which proved the dominant visual medium of the West for 350 years, and analyses how the shows influenced the portrayals of sexuality in major works of Gothic fiction.
Haunted Seasons
Television Ghost Stories for Christmas and Horror for Halloween
Inbunden, 2015
552 kr
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This book explores the literary and cultural history behind certain Christmas and Halloween traditions, and examines the way that they have moved into broadcasting. It demonstrates how these horror traditions have become more domestic and personal, and how they provide a necessary seasonal pause …
Bram Stoker, Dracula and the Victorian Gothic Stage
Av C. Wynne
Inbunden, 2013
635 kr
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Bram Stoker, Dracula and the Victorian Gothic Stage re-appraises Stoker's key fictions in relation to his working life. It takes Stoker's work from the margins to centre stage, exploring how Victorian theatre's melodramatic and Gothic productions influenced his writing and thinking.
British Gothic Cinema
Av B. Forshaw
Inbunden, 2013
1281 kr
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Barry Forshaw celebrates with enthusiasm the British horror film and its fascination for macabre cinema. A definitive study of the genre, British Gothic Cinema discusses the flowering of the field, with every key film discussed from its beginnings in the 1940s through to the 21st century.
British Gothic Cinema
Av B. Forshaw
Häftad, 2013
528 kr
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Barry Forshaw celebrates with enthusiasm the British horror film and its fascination for macabre cinema. A definitive study of the genre, British Gothic Cinema discusses the flowering of the field, with every key film discussed from its beginnings in the 1940s through to the 21st century.
Gothic Dissections in Film and Literature
The Body in Parts
Av Ian Conrich, Laura Sedgwick
Inbunden, 2017
1764 kr
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This is the first book-length study to systematically and theoretically analyse the use and representation of individual body parts in Gothic fiction. Moving between filmic and literary texts and across the body—from the brain, hair and teeth, to hands, skin and the stomach—this book engages in …
Spanish Gothic
National Identity, Collaboration and Cultural Adaptation
Inbunden, 2017
1388 kr
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This book presents the first English introduction to the broad history of the Gothic mode in Spain. It focuses on key literary periods, such as Romanticism, the fin-de-siècle, spiritualist writings of the early-twentieth century, and the cinematic and literary booms of the 1970s and 2000s. With …
Gothic Child
Inbunden, 2013
1262 kr
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Fascination with the dark and death threats are now accepted features of contemporary fantasy and fantastic fictions for young readers. These go back to the early gothic genre in which child characters were extensively used by authors. The aim of this book is to rediscover the children in their …
American Women's Ghost Stories in the Gilded Age
Av D. Downey
Inbunden, 2014
1262 kr
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This book shows just how closely late nineteenth-century American women's ghost stories engaged with objects such as photographs, mourning paraphernalia, wallpaper and humble domestic furniture. Featuring uncanny tales from the big city to the small town and the empty prairie, it offers a new …
Reading Vampire Gothic Through Blood
Bloodlines
Inbunden, 2014
635 kr
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Reading Vampire Gothic Through Blood examines the manifestations of blood and vampires in various texts and contexts. It seeks to connect, through blood, fictional to real-life vampires to trace similarities, differences and discontinuities. These movements will be seen to parallel changing notions …
Gothic Science Fiction
1818 to the Present
Av S. MacArthur
Inbunden, 2015
1388 kr
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Gothic Science Fiction explores the fascinating world of gothic influenced science fiction. From Frankenstein to Doctor Who and from H. G Wells to Stephen King, the book charts the rise of a genre and follows the descent into darkness that consumes it.
Gothic and the Everyday
Living Gothic
Av L. Piatti-Farnell, M. Beville
Inbunden, 2014
989 kr
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The Gothic and the Everyday aims to regenerate interest in the Gothic within the experiential contexts of history, folklore, and tradition. By using the term 'living', this book recalls a collection of experiences that constructs the everyday in its social, cultural, and imaginary incarnations
Consuming Gothic
Food and Horror in Film
Inbunden, 2017
1281 kr
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This book offers a critical analysis of the relationship between food and horror in post-1980 cinema. Evaluating the place of consumption within cinematic structures, Piatti-Farnell analyses how seemingly ordinary foods are re-evaluated in the Gothic framework of irrationality and desire. The …
Contemporary Scottish Gothic
Mourning, Authenticity, and Tradition
Av T. Baker
Inbunden, 2014
635 kr
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An innovative reading of a wide range of contemporary Scottish novels in relation to literary tradition and modern philosophy, Contemporary Scottish Gothic provides a new approach to Scottish fiction and Gothic literature, and offers a fuller picture of contemporary Scottish Gothic than any …
Sexuality and the Gothic Magic Lantern
Desire, Eroticism and Literary Visibilities from Byron to Bram Stoker
Av D. Jones
Häftad, 2014
860 kr
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This fascinating study explores the multifarious erotic themes associated with the magic lantern shows, which proved the dominant visual medium of the West for 350 years, and analyses how the shows influenced the portrayals of sexuality in major works of Gothic fiction.
Bram Stoker, Dracula and the Victorian Gothic Stage
Av C. Wynne
Häftad, 2013
635 kr
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Bram Stoker, Dracula and the Victorian Gothic Stage re-appraises Stoker's key fictions in relation to his working life. It takes Stoker's work from the margins to centre stage, exploring how Victorian theatre's melodramatic and Gothic productions influenced his writing and thinking.
Gothic Child
Häftad, 2013
569 kr
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Fascination with the dark and death threats are now accepted features of contemporary fantasy and fantastic fictions for young readers. These go back to the early gothic genre in which child characters were extensively used by authors. The aim of this book is to rediscover the children in their …
Reading Vampire Gothic Through Blood
Bloodlines
Häftad, 2014
635 kr
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Reading Vampire Gothic Through Blood examines the manifestations of blood and vampires in various texts and contexts. It seeks to connect, through blood, fictional to real-life vampires to trace similarities, differences and discontinuities. These movements will be seen to parallel changing notions …
Gothic and the Everyday
Living Gothic
Av L. Piatti-Farnell, M. Beville
Häftad, 2014
635 kr
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The Gothic and the Everyday aims to regenerate interest in the Gothic within the experiential contexts of history, folklore, and tradition. By using the term 'living', this book recalls a collection of experiences that constructs the everyday in its social, cultural, and imaginary incarnations
Contemporary Scottish Gothic
Mourning, Authenticity, and Tradition
Av T. Baker
Häftad, 2014
635 kr
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An innovative reading of a wide range of contemporary Scottish novels in relation to literary tradition and modern philosophy, Contemporary Scottish Gothic provides a new approach to Scottish fiction and Gothic literature, and offers a fuller picture of contemporary Scottish Gothic than any …
Bram Stoker and the Gothic
Formations to Transformations
Häftad, 2018
384 kr
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'My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side,' warns Dracula. This statement is descriptive of the Gothic genre. Like the Count, the Gothic encompasses and has manifested itself in many forms. Bram Stoker and the Gothic demonstrates how Dracula marks a key moment in …
Gothic Tourism
Av Emma McEvoy
Häftad, 2018
334 kr
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From Strawberry Hill to The Dungeons, Alnwick Castle to Barnageddon, Gothic tourism is a fascinating, and sometimes controversial, area. This lively study considers Gothic tourism's aesthetics and origins, as well as its relationship with literature, film, folklore, heritage management, arts …
Haunted Seasons
Television Ghost Stories for Christmas and Horror for Halloween
Häftad, 2017
447 kr
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This book explores the literary and cultural history behind certain Christmas and Halloween traditions, and examines the way that they have moved into broadcasting. It demonstrates how these horror traditions have become more domestic and personal, and how they provide a necessary seasonal pause …
Contemporary Women's Gothic Fiction
Carnival, Hauntings and Vampire Kisses
Av Gina Wisker
Häftad, 2018
359 kr
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This book revives and revitalises the literary Gothic in the hands of contemporary women writers. It makes a scholarly, lively and convincing case that the Gothic makes horror respectable, and establishes contemporary women’s Gothic fictions in and against traditional Gothic. The book provides new, …
Queering Contemporary Gothic Narrative 1970-2012
Häftad, 2018
359 kr
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This book explores the development of queer Gothic fiction, contextualizing it with reference to representations of queer sexualities and genders in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Gothic, as well as the sexual-political perspectives generated by the 1970s lesbian and gay liberation movements and …
American Horror Fiction and Class
From Poe to Twilight
Häftad, 2022
334 kr
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In this book, Simmons argues that class, as much as race and gender, played a significant role in the development of Gothic and Horror fiction in a national context. From the classic texts of Edgar Allen Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne right through to contemporary examples, such as the novels of …
Contemporary Gothic Drama
Attraction, Consummation and Consumption on the Modern British Stage
Av Kelly Jones, Benjamin Poore m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
1355 kr
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This ground-breaking volume is the first of its kind to examine the extraordinary prevalence and appeal of the Gothic in contemporary British theatre and performance. Chapters range from considerations of the Gothic in musical theatre and literary adaptation, to explorations of the Gothic’s power …
Contemporary Gothic Drama
Attraction, Consummation and Consumption on the Modern British Stage
Av Kelly Jones, Benjamin Poore m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
850 kr
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This ground-breaking volume is the first of its kind to examine the extraordinary prevalence and appeal of the Gothic in contemporary British theatre and performance. Chapters range from considerations of the Gothic in musical theatre and literary adaptation, to explorations of the Gothic’s power …
