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.

List of contents

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.

Summary

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.

Foreword

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

Product details

• Authors: Michael Cameron, Michael (Dalhousie University) Cameron, Cameron Michael
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2024
• EAN: 9781009357531
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0935753-1
• No. of pages: 75
• Series: Elements in the Gothic
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; 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