| Series |
Palgrave Gothic
Palgrave gothic series. ^A1192538
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| Contents |
Introduction: living Gothic / Lorna Piatti-Farnell and Maria Beville -- Uncanny histories. Trauma, Gothic, revolution / David Punter -- Uncanny communities: empire and its others / Kristy Butler -- Gothic memory and the contested past: framing terror / Maria Beville -- The abhuman city: Peter Ackroyd's Gothic historiography of London / Ashleigh Prosser -- Legends, folklore, and tradition. Spectral pumpkins: cultural icons and the Gothic everyday / Lorna Piatti-Farnell -- The doll's uncanny soul / Susan Yi Sencidiver -- Ghosting the nation: La llorona, popular culture, and the spectral anxiety of Mexican identity / Enrique Ajuria Ibarra -- A dark domesticity: echoes of folklore in Irish contemporary Gothic / Tracy Fahey -- Gothic "remains". Architecture and the romance of Gothic remains: John Carter and the gentleman's magazine, 1797-1817 / Dale Townshend -- Morbid dining: writing the haunted history of last meals / Donna Lee Brien -- Gothic remains in South Asian English fiction / Tabish Khair -- Haunting and the (im)possibility of Maori Gothic / Misha Avka. |
| Abstract |
Numerous dimensions of the Gothic are still under-explored. With this in mind, The Gothic and the Everyday aims to draw attention to one facet of the Gothic in particular: the Gothic in relation to lived experience. While the Gothic has been embodied in various cultural trends and behaviours, the broader idea of 'living Gothic', as a term encompassing histories, practices, and legacies, has yet to find a coherent definition and place. This book, then, serves to regenerate interest in the Gothic within the experiential contexts of history, folklore, and tradition, and the idea of Gothic remains in contemporary life. By using the term 'living', the book recalls a collection of experiences that constructs the everyday in its social, cultural, and imaginary incarnations. In this sense, 'living' also takes on multiple and multi-faceted connotations that resonate feelings of both finality and immortality, bygone experience, and future fantasy. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Source of description | Print version record. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Gothic and the everyday 9781137406637 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| ISBN | 9781137406644 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 113740664X (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 1137406631 |
| ISBN | 9781137406637 |
| Stock number | 754577 Palgrave Macmillan http://www.palgraveconnect.com |
