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Informationen zum Autor Fred Botting is Professor in the Institute for Cultural Research, Lancaster University. He has written extensively on Gothic fiction and Cultural Theory and his books include Gothic (Routledge 1996), Sex, Machines and Navels (Manchester University Press 1999) and, with Scott Wilson, Bataille (Palgrave, 2001) and The Tarantinian Ethics (Sage, 2001). Klappentext Gothic Romanced traces the history, and complicity, of gothic and romantic writings from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to the present day. Botting manages a fluid and extensive exploration of generic boundaries, including Gothic fiction, Romantic poetry, literary pastiches, popular horror fiction, cyberpunk and science fiction. Zusammenfassung Gothic Romanced traces the history, and complicity, of gothic and romantic writings from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to the present day. Botting manages a fluid and extensive exploration of generic boundaries, including Gothic fiction, Romantic poetry, literary pastiches, popular horror fiction, cyberpunk and science fiction. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: From Gothic to Romance 1. Romance, Ruins and the Thing: from the romantic sublime to cybergothic 2. Romance Consumed: death, simulation and the vampire 3. Poor Things as They Are: Political Romance from Gray to Godwin 4. Flight of the Heroine: from Female Gothic to Postfeminism 5. Monsters of the Imagination: Science, Fiction, Romance 6. Resistance is Futile: Romance and the Machine Bibliography
