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Author: Maisha Wester ,
Xavier Aldana Reyes
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.654kg
ISBN: 9781474440929
ISBN 10: 1474440924
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 01 July 2019
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
This is an excellent resource for scholars and students of contemporary Gothic literature and culture. With chapters by world-leading experts on cutting-edge topics such as digital Gothic, posthuman Gothic, steampunk, the New Weird and many more, this book will be a go-to volume for many years to come.-- ""Justin D. Edwards, University of Stirling"" Sweepingly comprehensive and well-organised into twenty definitive essays, this collection is the book for orienting students, teachers and lay readers to the multifarious forms the Gothic has taken since 2000 - while revealing the earlier roots and cultural conflicts behind each - across a wide range of media and all over the world.-- ""Jerrold E. Hogle, University of Arizona""
"This is an excellent resource for scholars and students of contemporary Gothic literature and culture. With chapters by world-leading experts on cutting-edge topics such as digital Gothic, posthuman Gothic, steampunk, the New Weird and many more, this book will be a go-to volume for many years to come.-- ""Justin D. Edwards, University of Stirling"" Sweepingly comprehensive and well-organised into twenty definitive essays, this collection is the book for orienting students, teachers and lay readers to the multifarious forms the Gothic has taken since 2000 - while revealing the earlier roots and cultural conflicts behind each - across a wide range of media and all over the world.-- ""Jerrold E. Hogle, University of Arizona"""
Author Information
Maisha Wester is Associate Professor in the Department of American Studies and Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies at Indiana University. She is the author of African American Gothic: Screams from Shadowed Places (Palgrave, 2012) and is currently writing a monograph on Voodoo Queens and Zombie Lords: Haiti in American Horror Culture (forthcoming, University of Virginia Press). Xavier Aldana Reyes is Reader in English Literature and Film at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is the author of Spanish Gothic: National Identity, Collaboration and Cultural Adaptation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), Horror Film and Affect: Towards a Corporeal Model of Viewership (Routledge, 2016) and Body Gothic: Corporeal Transgression in Contemporary Literature and Horror Film (University of Wales Press, 2014). He is also the editor of Horror: A Literary History (British Library Publications, 2016) and Digital Horror: Haunted Technologies, Network Panic and the Found Footage Phenomenon, co-edited with Dr Linnie Blake (I.B. Tauris, 2015).
