Gothic and modernism : essaying dark literary modernity /
Establishes and interprets the significant presence and the transformations of the Gothic tradition at the dark heart of writing during the long twentieth century. This work reveals challenges to both realism and to optimistic Enlightenment attitudes in the narratives and the styles of writers rangi...
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2008.
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Table of Contents:
- Dark modernity from Mary Shelley to Samuel Beckett: gothic history, the gothic tradition, and modernism / John Paul Riquelme
- pt. 1. The 1890s
- Oscar Wilde's aesthetic gothic: Walter Pater, dark enlightenment, and The picture of Dorian Gray / John Paul Riquelme
- "Double born": Bram Stoker and the metrocolonial gothic / Joseph Valente
- Oxford's ghosts: Jude, the obscure and the end of the gothic / Patrick R. O'Malley
- pt. 2. Gothic popular forms
- Race, labor, and the gothic western: dispelling frontier myths in Dorothy Scarborough's The wind / Susan Kollin
- "I'm in the business too": gothic chivalry, private eyes, and proxy sex and violence in Chandler's The big sleep / Charles J. Rzepka
- Parodied to death: the postmodern gothic of American psycho / Ruth Helyer
- pt. 3. The gothic and language
- Reading rooms: M.R. James and the library of modernity / Penny Fielding
- "No more than ghosts make": the hauntology and gothic minimalism of Beckett's late work / Graham Fraser
- pt. 4. Gothic cultural transformations: technology, the posthuman, and total war
- From superhuman to posthuman: the gothic technological imaginary in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis / Theodora Goss and John Paul Riquelme
- Gothic temporality and total war: Collins, Conrad, and Woolf / Paul K. Saint-Amour.