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aboriginal cultural narratives
Author_Matti Savolainen
border transgression theory
Canadian Gothic
castle
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Charles Brockden Brown
Chopin
comparative gothic motifs research
Contemporary Society
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Female Gothic
fiction
Finnish Cinema
folding
Folding Star
Gothic Imagination
Gothic Monster
Gothic Topographies
haunted
Le Diable
Le Diable Amoureux
minor language literature
Mr Tyrrel
Nation Building
Nonhuman Monster
Oriental Tale
Pit Bull Terriers
Poisonous Substance
postcolonial literary analysis
punter
railo
Richardson's Wacousta
Richardson’s Wacousta
Ruby Langford Ginibi
scandinavian horror fiction
sensibility
star
transnational gothic studies
Vampire Diaries
Weld's Tract
Weld’s Tract
White Reindeer
Young Man
Zacharias Topelius
Product details
- ISBN 9781409451662
- Weight: 612g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 09 Aug 2013
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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In demonstrating the global reach of Gothic literatures, this collection takes up the influence of the Gothic mode in literatures that may be geographically remote from one another but still share related issues of minor languages, nation building, place and race. Suggesting that there is a parallel between certain motifs and themes found in the Gothic of the North (Scandinavia, Northern Europe and Canada) and South (Australia, South Africa and the US South), the essays explore the transgressions and confusion of borders and limits, whether they be linguistic, literary, generic, class-based, gendered or sexual. The volume includes essays on a wide diversity of authors and topics: Jan Potocki, Gustav Meyrink, William Godwin, Alan Hollinghurst, Marlene van Niekerk, John Richardson, antislavery discourse and the Gothic imagination, the Australian aboriginal Gothic, vampires of Post-Soviet Gothic society, Danish, Swedish and Finnish fiction and film, and the Canadian female Gothic and the death drive. What distinguishes this book from other collections on the Gothic is the coverage of themes and literatures that are either lacking in the mainstream research on the Gothic or are referred to only briefly in other book-length studies. Experts in the Gothic and those new to the field will appreciate the book's commitment to situating Gothic sensibilities in an international context.
P.M. Mehtonen, Academy Research Fellow (Academy of Finland) School of Language, Translation and Literary Studies, University of Tampere, Finland, and Matti Savolainen, Senior Lecturer, School of Language, Translation and Literary Studies, University of Tampere, Finland.
