Description
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 through to the present day, this book examines how varieties of comic parody and appropriation have interrogated the complexities of modern subjectivity.
Détails du livre
Format
Broché
Pages
216 pages
Langue
Anglais
Publié
mai 14, 2014
Éditeur
Not Avail
Éditions
4 éditions
ISBN-10
0230503071
ISBN-13
9780230503076