War Gothic In Literature And Culture
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Author |
: Steffen Hantke |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 306 |
Release |
: 2015-12-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317383239 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317383230 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Synopsis War Gothic in Literature and Culture by : Steffen Hantke
In the context of the current explosion of interest in Gothic literature and popular culture, this interdisciplinary collection of essays explores for the first time the rich and long-standing relationship between war and the Gothic. Critics have described the global Seven Year’s War as the "crucible" from which the Gothic genre emerged in the eighteenth century. Since then, the Gothic has been a privileged mode for representing violence and extreme emotions and situations. Covering the period from the American Civil War to the War on Terror, this collection examines how the Gothic has provided writers an indispensable toolbox for narrating, critiquing, and representing real and fictional wars. The book also sheds light on the overlap and complicity between Gothic aesthetics and certain aspects of military experience, including the bodily violation and mental dissolution of combat, the dehumanization of "others," psychic numbing, masculinity in crisis, and the subjective experience of trauma and memory. Engaging with popular forms such as young adult literature, gaming, and comic books, as well as literature, film, and visual art, War Gothic provides an important and timely overview of war-themed Gothic art and narrative by respected experts in the field of Gothic Studies. This book makes important contributions to the fields of Gothic Literature, War Literature, Popular Culture, American Studies, and Film, Television & Media.
Author |
: S. Wasson |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 222 |
Release |
: 2015-12-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780230274891 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0230274897 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Synopsis Urban Gothic of the Second World War by : S. Wasson
This book examines writing in the Gothic mode which subverts the dominant national narrative of the British home front. Instead of seeing wartime experience as a site of fellowship and emotional resilience, Elizabeth Bowen, Anna Kavan, Mervyn Peake, Roy Fuller and others depict shadowy figures on the margin of the nation.
Author |
: Sandra Casanova-Vizcaíno |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 447 |
Release |
: 2017-10-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781315307657 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1315307650 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis Latin American Gothic in Literature and Culture by : Sandra Casanova-Vizcaíno
This book explores the Gothic mode as it appears in the literature, visual arts, and culture of different areas of Latin America. Focusing on works from authors in Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, the Andes, Brazil, and the Southern Cone, the essays in this volume illuminate the existence of native representations of the Gothic, while also exploring the presence of universal archetypes of terror and horror. Through the analysis of global and local Gothic topics and themes, they evaluate the reality of a multifaceted territory marked by a shifting colonial and postcolonial relationship with Europe and the United States. The book asks questions such as: Is there such a thing as "Latin American Gothic" in the same sense that there is an "American Gothic" and "British Gothic"? What are the main elements that particularly characterize Latin American Gothic? How does Latin American Gothic function in the context of globalization? What do these elements represent in relation to specific national literatures? What is the relationship between the Gothic and the Postcolonial? What can Gothic criticism bring to the study of Latin American cultural manifestations and, conversely, what can these offer the Gothic? The analysis performed here reflects a body of criticism that understands the Gothic as a global phenomenon with specific manifestations in particular territories while also acknowledging the effects of "Globalgothic" on a transnational and transcultural level. Thus, the volume seeks to open new spaces and areas of scholarly research and academic discussion both regionally and globally with the presentation of a solid analysis of Latin American texts and other cultural phenomena which are manifestly related to the Gothic world.
Author |
: Justin Edwards |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 214 |
Release |
: 2013-02-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781136337871 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1136337873 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Gothic in Contemporary Literature and Popular Culture by : Justin Edwards
This interdisciplinary collection brings together world leaders in Gothic Studies, offering dynamic new readings on popular Gothic cultural productions from the last decade. Topics covered include, but are not limited to: contemporary High Street Goth/ic fashion, Gothic performance and art festivals, Gothic popular fiction from Twilight to Shadow of the Wind, Goth/ic popular music, Goth/ic on TV and film, new trends like Steampunk, well-known icons Batman and Lady Gaga, and theorizations of popular Gothic monsters (from zombies and vampires to werewolves and ghosts) in an age of terror/ism.
Author |
: Christopher Herbert |
Publisher |
: University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages |
: 414 |
Release |
: 2019-11-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780813943411 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0813943418 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
Synopsis Evangelical Gothic by : Christopher Herbert
Evangelical Gothic explores the bitter antagonism that prevailed between two defining institutions of nineteenth-century Britain: Evangelicalism and the popular novel. Christopher Herbert begins by retrieving from near oblivion a rich anti-Evangelical polemical literature in which the great religious revival, often lauded in later scholarship as a "moral revolution," is depicted as an evil conspiracy centered on the attempted dismantling of the humanitarian moral culture of the nation. Examining foundational Evangelical writings by John Wesley and William Wilberforce alongside novels by Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Bram Stoker, and others, Herbert contends that the realistic popular novel of the time was constitutionally alien to Evangelical ideology and even, to some extent, took its opposition to that ideology as its core function. This provocative argument illuminates the frequent linkage of Evangelicalism in nineteenth-century fiction with the characteristic imagery of the Gothic–with black magic, with themes of demonic visitation and vampirism, and with a distinctive mood of hysteria and panic.
Author |
: Ailise Bulfin |
Publisher |
: University of Wales Press |
Total Pages |
: 310 |
Release |
: 2018-03-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781786832108 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1786832100 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis Gothic Invasions by : Ailise Bulfin
What do tales of stalking vampires, restless Egyptian mummies, foreign master criminals, barbarian Eastern hordes and stomping Prussian soldiers have in common? As Gothic Invasions explains, they may all be seen as instances of invasion fiction, a paranoid fin-de-siècle popular literary phenomenon that responded to prevalent societal fears of the invasion of Britain by an array of hostile foreign forces in the period before the First World War. Gothic Invasions traces the roots of invasion anxiety to concerns about the downside of Britain’s continuing imperial expansion: fears of growing inter-European rivalry and colonial wars and rebellion. It explores how these fears circulated across the British empire and were expressed in fictional narratives drawing strongly upon and reciprocally transforming the conventions and themes of gothic writing. Gothic Invasions enhances our understanding of the interchange between popular culture and politics at this crucial historical juncture, and demonstrates the instrumentality of the ever-versatile and politically-charged gothic mode in this process.
Author |
: Lisa Mullen |
Publisher |
: Manchester University Press |
Total Pages |
: 344 |
Release |
: 2019-03-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781526132796 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1526132796 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (96 Downloads) |
Synopsis Mid-century gothic by : Lisa Mullen
Mid-Century Gothic offers a fresh perspective on the cultural moment that followed World War II, and discovers a deep sense of unease mingling with optimism about the future. By reassessing the novels, films, visual culture and technologies of the period, the book argues that gothicism itself was redefined by the upstart objects of modernity.
Author |
: Charles L. Crow |
Publisher |
: University of Wales Press |
Total Pages |
: 250 |
Release |
: 2009-04-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780708322482 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0708322484 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis History of the Gothic: American Gothic by : Charles L. Crow
Defining the American gothic tradition both within the context of the major movements of intellectual history over the past three-hundred years, as well as within the issues critical to American culture, this comprehensive volume covers a diverse terrain of well-known American writers, from Poe to Faulkner to Toni Morrison and Cormac McCarthy. Charles L. Crow demonstrates how the gothic provides a forum for discussing key issues of changing American culture, explores forbidden subjects, and provides a voice for the repressed and silenced.
Author |
: Anna Jackson |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 256 |
Release |
: 2013-10-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781135902803 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1135902801 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Gothic in Children's Literature by : Anna Jackson
From creepy picture books to Harry Potter, Lemony Snicket, the Spiderwick Chronicles, and countless vampire series for young adult readers, fear has become a dominant mode of entertainment for young readers. The last two decades have seen an enormous growth in the critical study of two very different genres, the Gothic and children’s literature. The Gothic, concerned with the perverse and the forbidden, with adult sexuality and religious or metaphysical doubts and heresies, seems to represent everything that children’s literature, as a genre, was designed to keep out. Indeed, this does seem to be very much the way that children’s literature was marketed in the late eighteenth century, at exactly the same time that the Gothic was really taking off, written by the same women novelists who were responsible for the promotion of a safe and segregated children’s literature. This collection examines the early intersection of the Gothic and children’s literature and the contemporary manifestations of the gothic impulse, revealing that Gothic elements can, in fact, be traced in children’s literature for as long as children have been reading.
Author |
: Smith Andrew |
Publisher |
: Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2024-05-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1474443443 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781474443449 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis Gothic Fiction and the Writing of Trauma, 1914-1934 by : Smith Andrew
The first detailed analysis of Gothic literature and trauma in World War One This book examines the representation of the ghost-soldier in literature published from 1914-1934 both marking the presence of trauma and attempting to make sense of trauma. Andrew Smith examines short stories, novels, poems and memoirs that employ ghosts to reflect upon feelings of loss, paralleling the literary context with accounts of shell-shock which construe the damaged soldier as psychologically missing and therefore spectre-like. The author argues that literary and non-literary texts repeatedly deploy a form of the uncanny, familiar from a Gothic tradition, as way of reflecting upon grief. In support of this claim, he draws on fiction by well-known authors such as M. R. James, E. F. Benson, Dorothy L. Sayers and Dennis Wheatley, alongside largely forgotten contributions to The Strand and other periodical publications such as The Occult Review. Andrew Smith is Professor of Nineteenth-Century English Literature at the University of Sheffield where he co-directs the Centre for the History of the Gothic. He is the author or editor of over twenty published books including Gothic Death 1740-1914: A Literary History (2016) and The Ghost Story 1840-1920: A Cultural History (2010).