Gothic and the Comic Turn

by Avril Horner and Sue Zlosnik

Book Overview

Although Gothic writing is now seen as significant for an understanding of modernity, it is still largely characterized as a literature of fear and anxiety. Gothic and the Comic Turn argues that, partly through its desire to be taken seriously, Gothic criticism has neglected the comic doppelganger that has always inhabited the Gothic mode and which in certain texts emerges as dominant. Tracing an historical trajectory from the late Romantic period...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333771516
• ISBN13: 9780333771518
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 205 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 9.0"