Gothic and the Comic Turn

2005. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-0-333-77151-8
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 205 Seiten, Format (B × H): 139 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 381 g

Although Gothic writing is now seen as significant for an understanding of modernity, it is still largely characterized as a literature of fear and anxiety. Gothic and the Comic Turn argues that, partly through its desire to be taken seriously, Gothic criticism has neglected the comic doppelganger that has always inhabited the Gothic mode and which in certain texts emerges as dominant. Tracing an historical trajectory from the late Romantic period through to the present day, this book examines how varieties of comic parody and appropriation have interrogated the complexities of modern subjectivity.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Horner, A.

Zlosnik, S.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction The Late Romantic Turn Realism and Romance Towards Gothic Modernism Topography and the Comic Gothic Turn Women Writing Women Men Writing Men Afterword Index

Über Autor(innen)

AVRIL HORNER is Professor of English at Kingston University, London, UK. Her most recent book publication is the edited collection, (2002), and she is currently working with Janet Beer on , to be published by Palgrave in 2006.

SUE ZLOSNIK is Head of the Department and Professor of English at the Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. She has published recently on George Meredith and Robert Louis Stevenson.

Together they have published (1990) and (Palgrave, 1998) as well as numerous articles on Gothic fiction and women's writing.