| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 191 pages) |
| Series |
Anthem studies in Gothic literature |
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Anthem studies in Gothic literature
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| Contents |
Introduction : Neo-Gothicism : persistent haunting of the past and horrors anew / Brenda Ayres and Sarah E. Maier -- "Through a glass darkly" : the Gothic trace / Brenda Ayres -- Dark descen(den)ts : Neo-Gothic monstrosity and the women of Frankenstein / Sarah E. Maier -- Theorizing race, slavery and the new imperial Gothic in Neo-Victorian returns to Wuthering Heights / Carol Margaret Davison -- Toxic Neo-Gothic masculinity : Mr. Hyde, Tyler Durden and Donald J. Trump as angry white men / Martin Danahay -- Shadows of the vampire : Neo-Gothicism in Dracula, Ripper Street and What We Do in the Shadows / Jamil Mustafa -- "Here we are, again!" : Neo-Gothic narratives of textual haunting, from Peter Ackroyd's Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem to The Limehouse Golem / Ashleigh Prosser -- Spectral females, spectral males : coloniality and gender in Neo-Gothic Australian novels / Kate Livett -- "We are all humans" : self-aware zombies and Neo-Gothic posthumanism / Karen E. Macfarlane -- Neo-Gothic dinosaurs and the haunting of history / Jessica Gildersleeve and Nike Sulway -- Doctor Who's shaken faith in science : mistrusting science from the Gothic to the Neo-Gothic / Geremy Carnes -- The devil's in it : the Bible as Gothic / Brenda Ayres |
| Summary |
'Neo-Gothic Narratives' defines and theorises what mobilises the employment of the Gothic to speak to our own times |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Gothic fiction (Literary genre) -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Gothic & Romance.
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Gothic fiction (Literary genre)
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Maier, Sarah E. (Sarah Elizabeth), 1968- editor.
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Ayres, Brenda, 1953- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781785272189 |
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1785272187 |
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