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Gothic Romanced: Consumption, Gender and Technology in Contemporary Fictions book cover

1st Edition

Gothic Romanced Consumption, Gender and Technology in Contemporary Fictions

By Fred Botting Copyright 2008
232 Pages
by Routledge

The dark, destructive and monstrous elements of gothic fiction have traditionally been seen in opposition to the rose-tinted idealism of Romanticism. In this ground-breaking study, Fred Botting re-evaluates the relationship between the two genres in order to plot the shifting alignments of popular and literary fictions with cultural theories, consumption and representations of science. Gothic... Read more

Introduction: From Gothic to Romance  1. Romance, Ruins and the Thing: from the romantic sublime to cybergothic  2. Romance Consumed: death, simulation and the vampire  3. Poor Things as They Are: Political Romance from Gray to Godwin   4. Flight of the Heroine: from Female Gothic to Postfeminism  5. Monsters of the Imagination: Science, Fiction, Romance  6. Resistance is Futile: Romance and the Machine  Bibliography

Biography

Fred Botting is Professor in the Institute for Cultural Research, Lancaster University. He has written extensively on Gothic fiction and Cultural Theory and his books include Gothic (Routledge 1996), Sex, Machines and Navels (Manchester University Press 1999) and, with Scott Wilson, Bataille (Palgrave, 2001) and The Tarantinian Ethics (Sage, 2001).

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