Gothic Travel Through Haunted Landscapes - Climates of Fear

This book argues that travel in Gothic literature offers a unique and transformative perspective on recurring cultural preoccupations with fear, unknown landscapes, environmental change, surveillance, and the foreign.

List of contents

Acknowledgements; Introduction - Establishing Gothic Footfall; Travel Versus Tourism; Frissons and Chills; Climates of Fear; 1 Climate and the Elemental Gothic; 2 Stopping Points and (Final Un-)Resting Places; 3 At the Edge: Gothic Extremities in Britain and Ireland; 4 Walking Abroad: Ghosts and Landscape; Conclusion; Works Cited; Index

About the author

Lucie Armitt is a professor of Contemporary English Literature at University of Lincoln, UK.

Scott Brewster is a reader in Modern English Literature at University of Lincoln, UK.

Summary

This book argues that travel in Gothic literature offers a unique and transformative perspective on recurring cultural preoccupations with fear, unknown landscapes, environmental change, surveillance, and the foreign.

Product details

• Authors: Lucie Armitt, Lucie Brewster Armitt, Armitt Lucie, Scott Brewster, Brewster Scott
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9781839980213
• ISBN: 978-1-83998-021-3
• No. of pages: 196
• Series: Anthem Studies in Gothic Literature; Anthem Studies in Gothic Liter
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Gothic, LITERARY CRITICISM / Gothic & Romance, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Nature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Horror & Supernatural, Literary studies: general, Romanticism, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Nature and the natural world: general interest, Literature: history and criticism, Horror, ghost stories and supernatural fiction