Gothicka: Vampire Heroes, Human Gods, and the New Supernatural

by Victoria Nelson

Book Overview

The Gothic, Romanticism's gritty older sibling, has flourished in myriad permutations since the eighteenth century. In "Gothicka, " Victoria Nelson identifies the revolutionary turn it has taken in the twenty-first. Today's Gothic has fashioned its monsters into heroes and its devils into angels. It is actively reviving supernaturalism in popular culture, not as an evil dimension divorced from ordinary human existence but as part of our daily lives...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674050142
• ISBN13: 9780674050143
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.4"