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

by David Ashford

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This books traces the rise to prominence in the twentieth-century of a sub-genre of gothic fiction that is, emphatically, a horror of enlightenment rationality rather than gothic darkness, examining post-modern revisions of Modernist "Promethean" tropes in an eclectic range of gothic, fantasy and SF writing. Whether the subject be terror of London's churches in the psychogeographical fiction of Iain Sinclair and Alan Moore, the Orcs in the linguistic...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1526170876

ISBN13:9781526170873

Release Date:June 2024

Publisher:Manchester University Press

Length:248 Pages

Weight:1.03 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"

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