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This new collection of essays by major scholars in the field looks
at the ways in which cross-fertilization has taken place in Gothic
writing from France, Germany, Britain and America over the last 200
years, and argues that Gothic writing reflects international
exchanges in theme and form.
This new collection of essays by major scholars in the field looks
at the ways in which cross-fertilization has taken place in Gothic
writing from France, Germany, Britain and America over the last 200
years, and argues that Gothic writing reflects international
exchanges in theme and form.
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.
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.
This book is the first full-length evaluation of du Maurier's fiction and the first critical study of du Maurier as a Gothic writer. Using the most recent work in Gothic and gender studies, the authors enter the current debate on the nature of female Gothic and raise questions about du Maurier's relationship to such a tradition. They demonstrate that using recognizable popular forms, she was able to explore through Gothic writing the anxieties of modernity in the kind of fiction many people find accessible. This, they claim, explains the compulsive quality of her best novels and their enduring popularity.
Daphne du Maurier: Writing, Identity and the Gothic Imagination is
the first full-length evaluation of du Maurier's fiction and the
first critical study of du Maurier as a Gothic writer. Horner and
Zlosnik argue that the fears at the heart of du Maurier's Gothic
fictions reflect both personal and broader cultural anxieties
concerning sexual and social identity. Using the most recent work
in Gothic and gender studies they enter the current debate on the
nature of Female Gothic and raise questions about du Maurier's
relationship to such a tradition.
Daphne du Maurier: Writing, Identity and the Gothic Imagination is
the first full-length evaluation of du Maurier's fiction and the
first critical study of du Maurier as a Gothic writer. Horner and
Zlosnik argue that the fears at the heart of du Maurier's Gothic
fictions reflect both personal and broader cultural anxieties
concerning sexual and social identity. Using the most recent work
in Gothic and gender studies they enter the current debate on the
nature of Female Gothic and raise questions about du Maurier's
relationship to such a tradition.
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