Cette série plonge dans les profondeurs mystérieuses de la littérature et du cinéma gothiques, explorant leur évolution et leur impact sur les histoires culturelles et intellectuelles. Chaque volume offre de nouvelles perspectives sur la manière dont des thèmes clés tels que le genre, la religion et la nation ont façonné notre compréhension de la tradition gothique. C'est une lecture essentielle pour quiconque est fasciné par le macabre et son reflet dans l'art et la narration.
This book explores the intersections of Gothic, cultural, gender, queer, socio-economic and postcolonial theories in nineteenth-century British representations of sexuality, gender, class and race.
This volume investigates the roles played by the concept of the uncanny, as defined by Sigmund Freud and other theorists, in the representation of lesbian and male gay sexualities and transgender in a selection of contemporary British, American and Caribbean fiction published 1980-2007.
Defining the American gothic tradition both within the context of the major movements of intellectual history over the past three-hundred years, as well as within the issues critical to American culture, this comprehensive volume covers a diverse terrain of well-known American writers, from Poe to Faulkner to Toni Morrison and Cormac McCarthy. Charles L. Crow demonstrates how the gothic provides a forum for discussing key issues of changing American culture, explores forbidden subjects, and provides a voice for the repressed and silenced.