A Book of Monsters: Promethean Horror in Modern Literature and Culture

by David Ashford

This books traces the rise to prominence in the twentieth-century of a sub-genre of gothic fiction that is, emphatically, a horror of enlightenment rationality rather than gothic darkness, examining post-modern revisions of Modernist "Promethean" tropes in an eclectic range of gothic, fantasy and SF writing. Whether the subject be terror of London's churches in the psychogeographical fiction of Iain Sinclair and Alan Moore, the Orcs in the linguistic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1526170876
• ISBN13: 9781526170873
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"