Neo-Gothic Narratives defines and theorises what, exactly, qualifies as such a text, what mobilises the employment of the Gothic to speak to our own times, whether nostalgia plays a role and whether there is room for humour besides the sobriety and horror in these narratives across various media. What attracts us to the Gothic that makes us want to resurrect, reinvent, echo it? Why do we let the Gothic redefine us? Why do we let it haunt us? Does it speak to us through intertexuality, self-reflectivity, metafiction, immersion, affect? Are we reclaiming the history of women and other subalterns in the Gothic that had been denied in other forms of history? Are we revisiting the trauma of English colonisation and seeking national identity? Or are we simply tourists who enjoy cruising through the otherworld? The essays in this volume investigate both the readerly experience of Neo-Gothic narratives as well as their writerly pastiche.
Author(s): Sarah E. Maier (editor), Brenda Ayres (editor)
Series: (Anthem Studies in Gothic Literature)
Edition: 1
Publisher: Anthem Press
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 204
Tags: Literary Criticism, Literary Theory, Novel Criticism, Gothic Literature
Cover
Front Matter
Half-title
Title page
Copyright information
Dedication
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Chapters Int-11
Introduction
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter One “Through A Glass Darkly”: the Gothic trace
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter Two Dark Descen(den)ts: Neo-Gothic Monstrosity and the Women of Frankenstein
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter Three Theorising Race, Slavery and the New Imperial Gothic in Neo-Victorian Returns to Wuthering Heights
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter Four Toxic Neo-Gothic Masculinity: Mr. Hyde, Tyler Durden and Donald J. Trump as Angry White Men
Dr. Jekyll’s failure as a gentleman
Fight Club: Violence as male bonding
Snowflakes and white male supremacy
Neo-Gothic toxic American masculinity
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter Five Shadows of the Vampire: Neo-Gothicism in Dracula, Ripper Street and What we do in the Shadows
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter Six “Here we are, Again!”: Neo-Gothic Narratives of Textual Haunting, from Peter Ackroyd’s Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter Seven Spectral Females, Spectral Males: Coloniality and Gender in Neo-Gothic Australian Novels
The return of the repressed (ideology)
Haunted houses
Spectral femininity
Spectral males
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter Eight “We Are All Humans”: Self-Aware Zombies and Neo-Gothic Posthumanism
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter Nine Neo-Gothic Dinosaurs and the Haunting of History
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter Ten Doctor Who’s Shaken Faith in Science: Mistrusting Science from the Gothic to the Neo-Gothic
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter Eleven The Devil’s in it: The Bible as Gothic
Notes
Bibliography
NOTES ON Contributors
End Matter
Index
