Gothic romanced : consumption, gender and technology in contemporary fictions

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Gothic romanced : consumption, gender and technology in contemporary fictions

Fred Botting

Routledge, c2008

  • : hbk
  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-219) and index

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巻冊次

: hbk ISBN 9780415450898

内容説明

The dark, destructive and monstrous elements of gothic fiction have traditionally been seen in opposition to the rose-tinted idealism of Romanticism. In this ground-breaking study, Fred Botting re-evaluates the relationship between the two genres in order to plot the shifting alignments of popular and literary fictions with cultural theories, consumption and representations of science. Gothic Romanced traces the history of gothic and romantic writings from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to the present day. It examines the ways in which these genres were aligned with the historical process of modernity - with the Gothic representing the negative aspects of vice and barbarism that accompanied the changing parameters of civilisation, while Romance clung on to traditional values, manners and feelings. The book demonstrates how these genres have evolved together alongside cultural shifts and postmodern theories, blurring the binary between the sacred and the profane. Botting considers Romance and the Gothic from Mary Shelley, Anne Rice and Alasdair Gray through to Alien and Star Trek. He manages a fluid and extensive exploration of generic boundaries, including gothic fiction, romantic poetry, literary pastiches, popular horror fiction, cyberpunk and science fiction.

目次

Introduction: From Gothic to Romance 1. Romance, Ruins and the Thing: from the romantic sublime to cybergothic 2. Romance Consumed: death, simulation and the vampire 3. Poor Things as They Are: Political Romance from Gray to Godwin 4. Flight of the Heroine: from Female Gothic to Postfeminism 5. Monsters of the Imagination: Science, Fiction, Romance 6. Resistance is Futile: Romance and the Machine Bibliography
巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9780415450904

内容説明

The dark, destructive and monstrous elements of gothic fiction have traditionally been seen in opposition to the rose-tinted idealism of Romanticism. In this ground-breaking study, Fred Botting re-evaluates the relationship between the two genres in order to plot the shifting alignments of popular and literary fictions with cultural theories, consumption and representations of science. Gothic Romanced traces the history of gothic and romantic writings from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to the present day. It examines the ways in which these genres were aligned with the historical process of modernity - with the Gothic representing the negative aspects of vice and barbarism that accompanied the changing parameters of civilisation, while Romance clung on to traditional values, manners and feelings. The book demonstrates how these genres have evolved together alongside cultural shifts and postmodern theories, blurring the binary between the sacred and the profane. Botting considers Romance and the Gothic from Mary Shelley, Anne Rice and Alasdair Gray through to Alien and Star Trek. He manages a fluid and extensive exploration of generic boundaries, including gothic fiction, romantic poetry, literary pastiches, popular horror fiction, cyberpunk and science fiction.

目次

Introduction: From Gothic to Romance 1. Romance, Ruins and the Thing: from the romantic sublime to cybergothic 2. Romance Consumed: death, simulation and the vampire 3. Poor Things as They Are: Political Romance from Gray to Godwin 4. Flight of the Heroine: from Female Gothic to Postfeminism 5. Monsters of the Imagination: Science, Fiction, Romance 6. Resistance is Futile: Romance and the Machine Bibliography

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