A Book of Monsters: Promethean Horror in Modern Literature and Culture
Author:   David Ashford
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
ISBN:  

9781526195456


Pages:   248
Publication Date:   20 January 2026
Format:   Paperback
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A Book of Monsters: Promethean Horror in Modern Literature and Culture


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This books traces the rise to prominence in the twentieth-century of a sub-genre of gothic fiction that is, emphatically, a horror of enlightenment rationality rather than gothic darkness, examining post-modern revisions of Modernist ""Promethean"" tropes in an eclectic range of gothic, fantasy and SF writing. Whether the subject be terror of London's churches in the psychogeographical fiction of Iain Sinclair and Alan Moore, the Orcs in the linguistic fantasies of J.R.R. Tolkien, King Kong, killer-computers, or demon-children in post-war British science-fiction, A Book of Monsters offers illuminating perspectives on the darker recesses of the post-modern imagination, setting out a compelling, and comprehensive, overview on our contemporary unconscious.

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Author:   David Ashford
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
Imprint:   Manchester University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 21.60cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 13.80cm
Weight:   0.295kg
ISBN:  

9781526195456


ISBN 10:   1526195453
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   20 January 2026
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Not yet available, will be POD   Availability explained
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David Ashford is an Assistant Professor of English Literature at the University of Groningen

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