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Gothic and the comic turn

Title: Gothic and the comic turn / Avril Horner and Sue Zlosnik.
Author: Horner, Avril, 1947-
Publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

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Zlosnik, Sue, 1949-

Description

ix, 205 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"Gothic and the Comic Turn offers a fresh perspective on Gothic fiction, arguing that the value of the comic turn in Gothic texts has been largely overlooked. Gothic writing does indeed express the fragmentation of the modern subject but this expression is characterized by irony, scepticism, and the enjoyment of comic incongruity even as it engages with anguish, fear, isolation and alienation. Tracing an historical trajectory from the late Romantic period through to the late twentieth century, this book examines how varieties of comic parody and appropriation have interrogated the complexities of modern subjectivity. Writers examined include Maria Edgeworth, Eaton Stannard Barrett, E.T.A. Hoffmann, George Meredith, George du Maurier, Djuna Barnes, Evelyn Waugh, Stella Gibbons, Barbara Comyns, Muriel Spark, Iain Banks, Patrick McGrath, Fay Weldon and Angela Carter."--Jacket.

Subject

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-199) and index.

Contents

Chapter One: The Late Romantic Turn -- Chapter Two: Realism and Romance -- Chapter Three: Towards Gothic Modernism -- Chapter Four: Topography and the Comic Gothic Turn -- Chapter Five: Women writing Women -- Chapter Six: Men Writing Men.

ISBN

0333771516
9780333771518

LCCN

2004052099

OCLC

ocm55229153
55229153
SCSB-14512884

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Princeton University Library