Horror in the age of steam : tales of terror in the Victorian age of transitions

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Horror in the age of steam : tales of terror in the Victorian age of transitions

Carroll Clayton Savant

Routledge, 2021

  • : hbk

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Summary: "Faced with scientific innovation and industrial advancement, Victorians sought new ways to deal with their new moment in history. Many turned to artistic movements of the past; there were authors, however, who created new forms of storytelling, the horror story, to illustrate the terrors of an age in transition"--Provided by publisher

Includes bibliographical references and index

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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 Bronte, and Anne Bronte turned to horrifying representations of everyday reality to illustrate the psychological-traumatic terrors of an age of transition

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Introduction Chapter One: "If Ever I Saw Horror in the Human Face, It Was Then": Victorian Horror and the Terrifying Aesthetic of the Taboo in an Unstable World Chapter Two: "The Monstrous Serpents of Smoke": The Hellscape of the Industrial Factory in Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton and North and South and Victorian Fears of an Industrializing Economy Chapter Three: Greeks, Freaks, and Raving Lunatics: The Monstrous World of Science in Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights Chapter Four: Hysterical Angels and Loud-Mouthed Hussies: Anne Bronte's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and the Transformation of Gendered Voices in Victorian England

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