Gothic Romanced
Consumption, Gender and Technology in Contemporary Fictions
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Add to Cart- ISBN: 978-0-415-45090-4
- Binding: Paperback (also available in Hardback)
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 23rd June 2008
- Pages: 232
About the Book
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.
Table of Contents
Introduction: From Gothic to Romance I. Romance, Ruins and the Thing: from the romantic sublime to cybergothic Crisis, romanticism, repetition. Sublime Thing. Virtual imagination. Virtual repetition. II. Romance Consumed: death, simulation and the vampire The Gothic crisp Hypocrite vampire flaneur consumer Girly-girly Gothic. III. Poor Things as They Are: Political Romance from Gray to Godwin Postjustabouteverything. True romance. Gothic anti-gothic. IV. Flight of the Heroine: from Female Gothic to Postfeminism Posts. Becoming (gothic) woman. Alien romance V. Monsters of the Imagination: Science, Fiction, Romance Dark romance. Hideous progenies. Dark science. Future noir. VI. Resistance is Futile: Romance and the Machine Being borged. Gothic is irrelevant. Bibliography
About the Author(s)
Fred Botting is Professor in the Institute for Cultural Research, Lancaster University. He has written extensively on Gothic fiction and Cultural Theory and his books include Gothic (Routledge 1996), Sex, Machines and Navels (Manchester University Press 1999) and, with Scott Wilson, Bataille (Palgrave, 2001) and The Tarantinian Ethics (Sage, 2001).
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