A Book of Monsters - Promethean Horror in Modern Literature and Culture

This book presents a cultural history of Promethean Horror in the modern age, tracing the rise of a sub-genre of gothic fiction in the twentieth-century and examining post-modern revisions of Modernist "Promethean" tropes in an eclectic range of gothic, fantasy and SF writing.

About the author

David Ashford is an Assistant Professor of English Literature at the University of Groningen

Product details

• Authors: David Ashford, Ashford David
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 20.01.2026
• EAN: 9781526195456
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-9545-6
• No. of pages: 248
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Cultural Studies, Gothic, FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, FICTION / Occult & Supernatural, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, ARCHITECTURE / Criticism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Horror & ghost stories, Modernism, Philosophy: aesthetics, Myth & legend told as fiction, Art & design styles: Modernist design & Bauhaus, Horror and supernatural fiction, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Theory of architecture, Fiction: Traditional stories, myths and fairy tales, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form, FICTION / Horror / General