Last Man and Gothic Sympathy

This Element explores the 'Gothic sympathy' as it appears in a collection of 'Last Man' novels. It does this by dramatizing complicated relationships between a lone liberal-humanist subject and other-than-human or posthuman subjects that will persist beyond humanity's extinction.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Gothic sympathy and the last man; 2. Shelley's infectious despair; 3. Wells's vicious sympathy; 4. Matheson's dialectic of posthuman sympathy; References.

Zusammenfassung

This Element explores the 'Gothic sympathy' as it appears in a collection of 'Last Man' novels. It does this by dramatizing complicated relationships between a lone liberal-humanist subject and other-than-human or posthuman subjects that will persist beyond humanity's extinction.

Vorwort

This Element explores the 'Gothic sympathy' as it appears in a collection of 'Last Man' novels.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Michael Cameron, Michael (Dalhousie University) Cameron, Cameron Michael
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 31.03.2024
• EAN: 9781009494526
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0949452-6
• Seiten: 75
• Serie: Elements in the Gothic
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft; Science Fiction, Gothic, FICTION / Science Fiction / Time Travel, FICTION / Science Fiction / Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Science fiction: apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic, Science fiction: time travel, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form