Description |
vi, 202 p. ; 22 cm. |
Contents |
Postmodernism/gothicism / Allan Lloyd Smith -- Politics of petrifaction: culture, religion, history in the fiction of Iain Banks and John Banville / Victor Sage -- Pre-Oedipal father: the gothicism of Blue Velvet / Laura Mulvey -- Wild nights and buried letters: the gothic "unconscious" of feminist criticism / Ros Ballaster -- Postmodern feminine horror fictions / Susanne Becker -- Isak Dinesen and the fiction of gothic gravity / Helen Stoddart -- Tearing your soul apart: horror's new monsters / Peter Hutchings -- Gothic spaces: the political aesthetics of Toni Morrison's Beloved / Liliane Weissberg. |
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Problems of recollection and construction: Stephen King / David Punter -- Postmodern gothic: desire and reality in Angela Carter's writing / Beate Neumeier -- Alien invasion by body snatchers and related creatures / David Seed -- Postcolonial gothic: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and the Sobhraj case / Julie Newman -- Gothic convention and modernity in John Ramsay Campbell's short fiction / Giles Menegaldo. |
Subject |
Horror tales, English -- History and criticism.
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Horror tales, American -- History and criticism.
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English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Gothic revival (Literature)
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Added Author |
Sage, Victor, 1942-
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Smith, Allan Lloyd.
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ISBN |
0719042089 (pbk.) |
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0719042070 (alk. paper) |
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