Gothic and the Comic Turn

by Avril Horner and Sue Zlosnik

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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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0333771516

ISBN13:9780333771518

Release Date:November 2004

Publisher:Palgrave MacMillan

Length:205 Pages

Weight:0.84 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.5" x 9.0"

Related Subjects

English Literature Genre Fiction Gothic & Romantic Horror Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature Movements & Periods Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences Sociology

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