The Gothic Condition: Terror, History and the Psyche

The Gothic Condition: Terror, History and the Psyche
ISBN-10
1783168226
ISBN-13
9781783168224
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
288
Language
English
Published
2016-04-20
Publisher
University of Wales Press
Author
David Punter

Description

This book brings together fourteen of the most ambitious and thought-provoking recent essays by David Punter, who has been writing on the Gothic to academic and general acclaim for over thirty years. Punter addresses developments in Gothic writing and Gothic criticism since the mid-eighteenth century, by isolating and discussing specific themes and scenarios that have remained relevant to literary and philosophical discussion over the decades and centuries, and also by paying close attention to the motifs, figures and recurrences that loom so large in twenty-first-century engagements with the Gothic. This book, while engaging deeply with Gothic history, constantly addresses our continuing immediate encounters with Gothic tropes – the vampire, the zombie, the phantom, the living dead.

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