A book of monsters : promethean horror in modern literature and culture /
This books traces the rise to prominence in the twentieth-century of a sub-genre of gothic fiction that is, emphatically, a horror of enlightenment rationality rather than gothic darkness, examining post-modern revisions of modernist “Promethean” tropes in an eclectic range of gothic, fantasy and sc...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
[2024].
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| Summary: | This books traces the rise to prominence in the twentieth-century of a sub-genre of gothic fiction that is, emphatically, a horror of enlightenment rationality rather than gothic darkness, examining post-modern revisions of modernist “Promethean” tropes in an eclectic range of gothic, fantasy and science fiction writing. Whether the subject be terror of London’s churches in the psychogeographical fiction of Iain Sinclair and Alan Moore, the Orcs in the linguistic fantasies of J.R.R. Tolkien, King Kong, killer-computers or demon-children in postwar British science fiction, A Book of Monsters offers illuminating perspectives on the darker recesses of the post-modern imagination, setting out a compelling and comprehensive, overview on our contemporary unconscious. |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 236 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [219]-227) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1526170876 9781526170873 |