| Contemporary Women's Gothic Fiction: Carnival, Hauntings and Vampire Kisses 2016 Edition Contributor(s): Wisker, Gina (Author) |
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ISBN: 1349671681 ISBN-13: 9781349671687 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $28.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Film - Genres - General - Literary Criticism | Modern - General - Language Arts & Disciplines | Writing - General |
| Dewey: 809.387 |
| Series: Palgrave Gothic |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 7.6" W x 8.2" (0.70 lbs) 269 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Modern |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book revives and revitalises the literary Gothic in the hands of contemporary women writers. It makes a scholarly, lively and convincing case that the Gothic makes horror respectable, and establishes contemporary women's Gothic fictions in and against traditional Gothic. The book provides new, engaging perspectives on established contemporary women Gothic writers, with a particular focus on Angela Carter, Margaret Atwood and Toni Morrison. It explores how the Gothic is malleable in their hands and is used to demythologise oppressions based on difference in gender and ethnicity. The study presents new Gothic work and new nuances, critiques of dangerous complacency and radical questionings of what is safe and conformist in works as diverse as Twilight (Stephenie Meyer) and A Girl Walks Home Alone (Ana Lily Amirpur), as well as by Anne Rice and Poppy Brite. It also introduces and critically explores postcolonial, vampire and neohistorical Gothic and women's ghost stories. |