Awards

• Long-listed for Allan Lloyd Smith Memorial Prize for Gothic Criticism 2022 (United States)

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Author:   Dr Megen de Bruin-Molé
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Weight:   0.567kg
ISBN:  

9781350103054

ISBN 10:   1350103055
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   31 October 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Chapter One: Frankenfictions - Gothic Remixed - Monstrous Adaptations - The Many Faces of Frankenfiction - Twenty-First-Century Remix Culture - Frankenfiction as Remix - Frankenfiction as Adaptation - Frankenfiction as Appropriation - Hauntings and Illegitimate Offspring Chapter Two: Adapting the Monster - From ‘Miserable Wretch’ to ‘Modernity Personified’: Defining the Twenty-First-Century Monster - ‘Ourselves Expanded’: Anno Dracula and the Neoliberal Vampire - The Empire Strikes Back: Victorian Monsters and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - ‘We Are All Monsters’: Reclaiming Privilege in Penny Dreadful - ‘Monstrum Sum’: Intersectional Monstrosity in The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club - The Promises of Monsters Chapter Three: Mashing Up the Joke - Camp as Sincere Parody - The Irony of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies; Or, Taking Historical Fiction Seriously - Literature with a Twist: Parodying the Classics - Parodying Neo-Victorianism - Taking the Past Seriously; Or, The Limits of Postmodern Irony - Conclusion: Beyond Postmodern Irony Chapter Four: Remixing Historical Fiction - The Gothic and Historical Fiction - The ‘Look’ of the Past: Visual Gothic Histories - Sublime Metamorphosis: Dan Hillier’s Victorian Illustrations - Foreign Animals: The Immigrant Portraiture of Travis Louie - Meet the Family: Colin Batty’s Victorian Cabinet Cards - Flux Machine: Kevin J. Weir’s Animated Horrors - Conclusion: Unnatural History Chapter Five: Appropriating the Author - Frankenfiction and Romantic Authorship - Frankenfiction and the (Un)Death of the Author - Frankenfiction and Transmedia World-Building - Women’s Work: Mary Shelley as Remixer/Remixed - Feminist Frankenfiction? - Conclusion: The Monster Always Escapes - Bibliography

Reviews

Gothic Remixed offers a fresh and exciting new take on twenty-first century Gothic. It addresses texts across a range of media that have often been dismissed as parasitic or derivative and champions their significance while remaining alert to their ethical shortcomings. By showing how monstrosity becomes the animating principle of Gothic mashups, hybrid texts and `Frankenfictions', the book sheds light on emerging forms of Gothic cultural production and provides a cohesive framework for reading the incohesive. De Bruin-Mole is working at the cutting edge of contemporary Gothic and her book will be indispensible for students and scholars with an interest in the field. -- Catherine Spooner, Professor of Literature and Culture, Department of English Stitching together adaptation theory and remix studies with surgical precision, De Bruin-Mole has produced the first book on the modern monster mashup. Authoritative, insightful and immensely enjoyable, Gothic Remixed heralds the arrival of an exciting new voice to contemporary Gothic studies. -- Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes, Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Film at Manchester Metropolitan University

Gothic Remixed offers a fresh and exciting new take on twenty-first century Gothic. It addresses texts across a range of media that have often been dismissed as parasitic or derivative and champions their significance while remaining alert to their ethical shortcomings. By showing how monstrosity becomes the animating principle of Gothic mashups, hybrid texts and `Frankenfictions', the book sheds light on emerging forms of Gothic cultural production and provides a cohesive framework for reading the incohesive. De Bruin-Mole is working at the cutting edge of contemporary Gothic and her book will be indispensible for students and scholars with an interest in the field. -- Catherine Spooner, Professor of Literature and Culture, Department of English Stitching together adaptation theory and remix studies with surgical precision, de Bruin-Mole has produced the first book on the modern monster mashup. Authoritative, insightful and immensely enjoyable, Gothic Remixed heralds the arrival of an exciting new voice to contemporary Gothic studies. -- Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes, Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Film at Manchester Metropolitan University

Author Information

Megen de Bruin-Molé is a scholar and university lecturer working in the UK. She specialises in adaptation, (neo-)Victorian fiction, popular feminism, and contemporary remix culture.

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