The Gothic

From Horace Walpole to Angela Carter and the X-Files, new and familiar texts are reassessed, and common readings of Gothic themes and critical approaches to the genre are interrogated.

Sommario

Preface - the Gothic, Fred Botting; Gothic - violence, trauma and the ethical, David Punter and Elisabeth Bronfen; Horace Walpole's "Mysterious Mother" and the impossibility of female desire, E.J. Clery; abjection, nationalism and the Gothic, Robert Miles; the kitten's nose - "Dracula" and witchcraft, Jean-Jacques Lecercle; law and the Gothic imagination, Leslie J. Moran; "The Passion of New Eve" and the cinema - hysteria, spectacle and masquerade, Helen Stoddart; candygothic, Fred Botting; the Gothic at our turn of the century - our culture of simulation and the return of the body, Jerrold E. Hogle.

Info autore

Professor Fred Botting teaches in the Department of English at Keele University.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Fred Botting, Myilibrary
• Con la collaborazione di: Fred Botting (Editore)
• Editore: D. S. Brewer
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 01.01.2001
• Pagine: 192
• Dimensioni: 146 mm x 223 mm x 18 mm
• Peso: 374 g
• Serie: Essays and Studies
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata