Format:
1 Online-Ressource (214 pages)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0708323626
,
9780708323625
Series Statement:
Gothic Literary Studies
Content:
This is a book looking at Gothic literature and film and its relationship to society and culture. It spans the long twentieth century from Henry James's The Turn of the Screw (1898) to Sarah Waters's The Little Stranger (2009). One of the questions it raises is why we are still fascinated by ghosts, demons and monsters, despite living in a culture in which belief in the supernatural can no longer be assumed. It includes topics such as children and our fears for them, terrorism and atrocity, sexuality and disease and the comedy of fear
Content:
Series Editors' Foreword; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Illustrations; Introduction; Gothic Pathologies: Haunted Children; Building Suspense:Architectural Gothic; Gothic Inhumanity; Queering the Gothic; Survey of Criticism; Conclusion: Thriller and Stranger; Notes; Annotated Bibliography; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780708320075
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Armitt, Lucie History of the Gothic : Twentieth-Century Gothic Cardiff : University of Wales Press, ©2011 ISBN 9780708320075
Language:
English
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