Neo-Gothic Narratives (eBook, ePUB)

Illusory Allusions from the Past
Redaktion: Maier, Sarah E.; Ayres, Brenda

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'Neo-Gothic Narratives' defines and theorises what mobilises the employment of the Gothic to speak to our own times.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, D ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781785272196
• Artikelnr.: 59075468

Autorenporträt

Sarah E. Maier is professor of English and comparative literature at the University of New Brunswick. Canada, and was named University Teaching Scholar in 2006. She has been working on the Brontës for the bicentennials including for The Lost Manuscripts (2018). Maier's past work includes Reinventing Marie Corelli for the Twenty-First Century (2019), co-edited with Brenda Ayres. Her other current interests include Sherlock Holmes, Neo-Victorian vampires, adaptation and Neo-Victorian young adult fiction. Brenda Ayres is professor of English teaching a wide array of English online courses through Liberty University and Southern New Hampshire University, USA. She has edited several collections of essays including Reinventing Marie Corelli for the Twenty-First Century (2019) with Sarah E. Maier, Victorians and Their Animals: Beast on a Leash (2018) and Biographical Misrepresentations of British Women Writers: A Hall of Mirrors and the Long Nineteenth Century (2017). She is the author of Betwixt and Between: The Biographies of Mary Wollstonecraft (2017).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements; Introduction Neo- Gothicism: Persistent Haunting of the
Past and Horrors Anew, Brenda Ayres and Sarah E. Maier; Chapter One
"Through a glass darkly": The Gothic Trace, Brenda Ayres; Chapter Two Dark
Descen(den)ts: Neo- Gothic Monstrosity and the Women of Frankenstein, Sarah
E. Maier; Chapter Three Theorising Race, Slavery and the New Imperial
Gothic in Neo- Victorian Returns to Wuthering Heights, Carol Margaret
Davison; Chapter Four Toxic Neo- Gothic Masculinity: Mr. Hyde, Tyler Durden
and Donald J. Trump as Angry White men, Martin Danahay; Chapter Five
Shadows of the Vampire: Neo-Gothicism in Dracula, Ripper Street and What We
Do in the Shadows, Jamil Mustafa; Chapter Six "Here we are, again! ":
Neo-Gothic Narratives of Textual Haunting, from Peter Ackroyd's Dan Leno
and the Limehouse Golem to The Limehouse Golem, Ashleigh Prosser; Chapter
Seven Spectral Females, Spectral Males: Coloniality and Gender in Neo-
Gothic Australian novels, Kate Livett; Chapter Eight "We Are all humans":
Self- Aware Zombies and Neo- Gothic Posthumanism, Karen E. Macfarlane;
Chapter Nine Neo- Gothic Dinosaurs and the Haunting of History, Jessica
Gildersleeve and Nike Sulway; Chapter Ten Doctor Who 's Shaken Faith in
Science: Mistrusting Science from the Gothic to the Neo- Gothic, Geremy
Carnes; Chapter Eleven The Devil's in It: The Bible as Gothic, Brenda
Ayres; Notes on Contributors; Index.