Gothic and the Comic Turn

Horner, A./ Zlosnik, S.

Palgrave Macmillan（2005/01発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 205 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781349415564
• DDC分類 820.911

Full Description

Although Gothic writing is now seen as significant for an understanding of modernity, it is still largely characterized as a literature of fear and anxiety. Gothic and the Comic Turn argues that, partly through its desire to be taken seriously, Gothic criticism has neglected the comic doppelganger that has always inhabited the Gothic mode and which in certain texts emerges as dominant. Tracing an historical trajectory from the late Romantic period through to the present day, this book examines how varieties of comic parody and appropriation have interrogated the complexities of modern subjectivity.

Contents

Introduction The Late Romantic Turn Realism and Romance Towards Gothic Modernism Topography and the Comic Gothic Turn Women Writing Women Men Writing Men Afterword Index