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OverviewThis book positions the 'California Gothic' as a highly significant regional subgenre which articulates anxieties specific to the historical, cultural and geographical characteristics of the 'Golden State'. California has long been perceived as a utopian space, but it is also haunted by the spectres of European and Anglo-American imperialism, genocide, racial and economic discrimination, natural disaster and aggressive infrastructural and commercial development. Drawing on the work of California historians and cultural commentators, this study explores the ways in which the nightmarish flipside of the 'California Dream' has been depicted within horror and Gothic. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Bernice M. MurphyPublisher: Edinburgh University Press Imprint: Edinburgh University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9781474497879ISBN 10: 147449787 Pages: 320 Publication Date: 31 May 2024 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsCalifornia Gothic is a brilliant, insightful and richly historical book, one that will jolt you into awareness of the glaring omission (until now) of California from the American Gothic. It offers figures that take their rightful place in the Gothic canon - the 'Fallen Star' of the 'Hollywood Gothic' and the 'California Cult' - and delivers the most innovative intervention into Gothic criticism in years. --Dawn Keetley, Lehigh University Author InformationBernice M. Murphy is an Associate Professor and Lecturer in Popular Literature in the School of English, Trinity College, Dublin. She has published extensively on topics related to American Gothic and horror fiction and film and was recently academic consultant to The Letters of Shirley Jackson (2021, edited by Laurence Jackson Hyman). Bernice was made a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin in 2017. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |