21st-century British gothic : the monstrous, spectral, and uncanny in contemporary fiction /
In this innovative recasting of the genre and its received canon, Emily Horton explores fictional investments in the Gothic within contemporary British literature, revealing how such concepts as the monstrous, spectral and uncanny work to illuminate the insecure, uneven and precarious experience of...
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London ; New York :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2024.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : 21st-century British gothic : the monstrous, spectral, and uncanny in contemporary Fiction
- Post-9/11 gothic : the uncanny and contemporary trauma in Pat Barker's Double vision and Patrick McGrath's Ghost town
- Decolonial gothic : tropical terrors and subterranean ghosts in Tash Aw's The harmony silk factory and Nadeem Aslam's The wasted vigil
- Gothic inheritance : imperial witchcraft and haunted houses in Helen Oyeyemi's White is for witching and Sarah Waters' The little stranger
- Digital gothic : digital technology, migration, and the gothic in Hari Kunzru's Transmission and Mohsin Hamid's Exit west
- Gothic homelessness : spectral inhabitants and uncanny spaces in Ali Smith's Hotel world, Trezza Azzopardi's Remember me, and Brian Chikwava's Harare north
- The gothic city : uncanny spaces, historical spectres, and monstrous urbanity in Louise Welsh's The cutting room and Chloe Aridjis's Book of clouds
- Brexit gothic : spectral illusions and affect memories in Sarah Moss's Ghost wall and Niall Griffith's Broken ghost
- Pandemic gothic : childhood terror and monstrous illness in the fiction of Kazuo Ishiguro and M.R. Carey
- Wet gothic : ecofeminism and horror in Julie Armfield's Our wives under the sea, Daisy Johnson's Fen, and Zoe Gilbert's Folk.