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Author:   Melissa Edmundson
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.308kg
ISBN:  

9780786499762

ISBN 10:   0786499761
Pages:   204
Publication Date:   27 April 2016
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction (Melissa Edmundson) Part 1. Gothic Tropes and Traditions Gothic Anxieties—Then and Now: A Post–9/11 Examination of the Gothic (Alexandra Lykissas) The Automobile as Moving Castle (Thomas Knowles) Shadows of Hope: Gothic Motifs and Nihilism (Dana Fore) Part 2. Gothic Storytelling “You can’t spell subtext without ­S-E-X”: Gothic Intertextuality and the (Queer) Uncanny (Jamil Mustafa) “I know everything that’s going to happen”: The Self-Reflexive Compulsion to Repeat (with a Difference) (Michael Fuchs) Gothic Imaginings: Folkloric Roots (Daniel P. Compora) Part 3. Gothic Women: Heroes and Victims Coloniality and the Chicana Gothic: Travelling Myths in the Pilot (Leow Hui Min Annabeth) Wearing the Woman in White: The Doomed Lives and Afterlives of Women (E. J. Nielsen) “What’s up, bitches?” Charlie Bradbury as Gothic Heroine (Ashley Walton) Part 4. Gothic Others: Monstrous Selves “We’ve all been demons”: Postmodern Gothic and the Fragmented Self (Jessica Seymour) “Sympathy for the Devil”: The Neutralization of Traditionally Evil Figures (Samantha J. Vertosick) “Psychotically, irrationally, erotically codependent”: Incest and the Gothic Other (Megan Fowler) We All Have a Little Monster in Us: Dean Winchester, the Mark of Cain and the New Monster Paradigm (Lisa Schmidt) About the Contributors Index

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devoted to the ongoing employment and development of the Gothic in the monster-hunting family drama --ProtoView; a great book --Supernatural Wiki.

Valuable contribution to the study of the evolution of the Gothic genre and to the rise of Gothic horror TV.... Edmundson has gathered a wonderful set of articles.... Both the editor and the publisher deserve praise for their meticulous editing of the essays in the collection...an important scholarly contribution --H-Net Reviews; devoted to the ongoing employment and development of the Gothic in the monster-hunting family drama --ProtoView; a great book --Supernatural Wiki.

devoted to the ongoing employment and development of the Gothic in the monster-hunting family drama --<i>ProtoView</i>; a great book --<i>Supernatural Wiki</i>.

Author Information

Editor Melissa Edmundson specializes in 19th and 20th-century British women writers, with particular interests in ghost stories, the Gothic, and Anglo-Indian popular fiction.

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