Lucie Armitt, Scott Brewster

Gothic Travel through Haunted Landscapes (eBook, ePUB)

Climates of Fear

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book argues that the process and experience of travel in Gothic literature provides a unique and transformative perspective on the relationship between fear and recurring cultural preoccupations from the late eighteenth century to the present, ranging from concerns about climate change or the presence of the unseen to the negotiation of cultural difference and the apprehension produced by various modes of modern transport and unknown/unknowable terrain. The book follows travellers who take many fictional forms - tourists, commuters, walkers, explorers, as well as the 'armchair tourist' or reader - as they encounter fascinating, strange and often disconcerting weathers, climates, landscapes and topographies. Gothic travel epitomises the wonder, excitement, suspicion or incomprehension that arises from journeys through familiar and unfamiliar terrain. While exposure to the wild, elemental or primitive could produce the elevation of the sublime in early Gothic, increasingly the experience of travel raised unsettling questions about people, places and environments that lay beyond established frames of knowledge. Gothic travellers are haunted, never alone, and the experience of journeying through these landscapes provokes fears that may shadow them even after they have returned to 'home' ground. Climates of Fear reveals the persistent ways in which Gothic narratives of travel confront fears about the environment, surveillance, (im)migration and the foreign. These abiding concerns speak loudly to the present time, however, when the encroachments on our immediate surroundings - from climate change, digital communication and geopolitical dislocation - seem at once remote and intimate, invisible yet urgent. Thus the book also asks whether recent portrayals of Gothic journeys now pose different questions to the reader.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781839980237
• Artikelnr.: 63388531

Autorenporträt

Lucie Armitt is a professor of Contemporary English Literature at University of Lincoln, UK.

Scott Brewster is a reader in Modern English Literature at University of Lincoln, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
 Introduction - Establishing Gothic Footfall
 Travel Versus Tourism
 Frissons and Chills
Climates of Fear
1 Climate and the Elemental Gothic
 2 Stopping Points and (Final Un-)Resting Places
 3 At the Edge: Gothic Extremities in Britain and Ireland
 4 Walking Abroad: Ghosts and Landscape
 Conclusion
 Works Cited
 Index