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Gothic Romanced - Consumption, Gender and Technology in Contemporary Fictions (Paperback, New)
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Gothic Romanced - Consumption, Gender and Technology in Contemporary Fictions (Paperback, New)
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The dark, destructive and monstrous elements of gothic fiction have
traditionally been seen in opposition to the rose-tinted idealism
of Romanticism. In this ground-breaking study, Fred Botting
re-evaluates the relationship between the two genres in order to
plot the shifting alignments of popular and literary fictions with
cultural theories, consumption and representations of science.
Gothic Romanced traces the history of gothic and romantic writings
from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to the present day. It
examines the ways in which these genres were aligned with the
historical process of modernity - with the Gothic representing the
negative aspects of vice and barbarism that accompanied the
changing parameters of civilisation, while Romance clung on to
traditional values, manners and feelings. The book demonstrates how
these genres have evolved together alongside cultural shifts and
postmodern theories, blurring the binary between the sacred and the
profane. Botting considers Romance and the Gothic from Mary
Shelley, Anne Rice and Alasdair Gray through to Alien and Star
Trek. He manages a fluid and extensive exploration of generic
boundaries, including gothic fiction, romantic poetry, literary
pastiches, popular horror fiction, cyberpunk and science fiction.
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