Horror in the Age of Steam
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- ISBN 9780367858582
- Weight: 660g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 10 Mar 2021
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Change is terrifying, and rapid change, within a small amount of time, is destabilizing to any culture. England, under the tutelage of Queen Victoria, witnessed precipitous change the likes of which it had not encountered in generations. Wholesale swaths of the economy and the social structure underwent complete recalibration, through the hands of economic progress, industrial innovation, scientific discovery, and social cohesiveness. Faced with such change, Britons had to redefine the concept of work, belief, and even what it meant to be English. Victorians relied on many methods to attempt to release the steam from the anxieties incurred through change, and one of those methods was the horror story of everyday existence during an age of transition. This book is a study of how authors Elizabeth Gaskell, Emily Brontë, and Anne Brontë turned to horrifying representations of everyday reality to illustrate the psychological-traumatic terrors of an age of transition
Carroll Clayton Savant holds a PhD in literary studies from the University of Texas at Dallas. He is an Associate Professor of English and teaches literature, composition, and humanities at Tarrant County College, where he has created classes on horror, science fiction, dystopian realities, and the voices of minority cultures. Savant has written and published extensively on the relationship between music and literature in Victorian society, primarily through the works of George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, and George Gissing. His scholarship has appeared in The Victorian, The Victorian Web, and through the San Francisco State University Press and Salem Press. He is an academically trained musicologist with a background as a concert pianist and orchestral musician. His current research interests include the work of the Brownings, the history of the novel, and studying Steampunk cultures.
